Streamflow regimes of the Yanhe River under climate and land use change, Loess Plateau, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2402-2413

  Gao, Peng ^a,b   Jiang, Guantao ^a   Wei, Yongping ^b   Mu, Xingmin ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Zhao, Guangju ^a   Sun, Wenyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change point; Soil and water conservation; Streamflow regime; The Loess Plateau; Trend

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION;

CHANGE-POINTS; LOESS PLATEAU; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; STREAMFLOW REGIMES; TREND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BASEFLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL CONSERVATION; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI; YAN RIVER;

EID: 84928153489     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10309     Document Type: Article

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