Impact of climate change and human activities on runoff in the Weihe River Basin, China

Quaternary International

Volumn 380-381, Issue , 2015, Pages 169-179

  Chang, Jianxia ^a   Wang, Yimin ^a   Istanbulluoglu, Erkan ^b   Bai, Tao ^a   Huang, Qiang ^a   Yang, Dawen ^a,c   Huang, Shengzhi ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environment change; Hydrological simulation; Run off; Weihe River Basin

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; WEI BASIN;

EID: 84940576989     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.048     Document Type: Article

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