Meteorological drought in the Beijiang River basin, South China: current observations and future projections

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1821-1834

  Wu, Chuanhao ^a   Xian, Zhuoyan ^a   Huang, Guoru ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Beijiang River; Drought; Projection of future drought; RCP scenarios; RegCM4.0; SPEI; Trends

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLIMATE MODELS; RIVERS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

BEIJIANG RIVERS; RCP SCENARIOS; REGCM4.0; SPEI; TRENDS;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; TREND ANALYSIS;

BEIJIANG BASIN; CHINA;

EID: 84941370073     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-015-1157-7     Document Type: Article

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