Water allocation and water consumption of irrigation agriculture and natural vegetation in the Heihe River watershed, NW China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5269-5279

  Hochmuth, Henrike ^a   Thevs, Niels ^a   He, Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Remote sensing; Tugai vegetation; Water resource management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; IRRIGATION; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL VEGETATION; VEGETATION MAPPING; VEGETATION PERIODS; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIELDWORK; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LANDSAT; MODIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SHRUB; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

CHINA; GANSU; HEI RIVER;

VITACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928737242     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3773-9     Document Type: Article

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