Quantifying the impacts of climate change and ecological restoration on streamflow changes based on a Budyko hydrological model in China's Loess Plateau

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6500-6519

  Liang, Wei ^a,b   Bai, Dan ^a   Wang, Feiyu ^c,d   Fu, Bojie ^e   Yan, Junping ^b   Wang, Shuai ^e   Yang, Yuting ^f   Long, Di ^g   Feng, Minquan ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Budyko framework; climate change; ecological restoration; Loess Plateau; streamflow change

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ELASTICITY; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW;

BUDYKO FRAMEWORK; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; GRAIN FOR GREEN PROJECTS; LAND SURFACE CONDITIONS; LOESS PLATEAU; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; STREAMFLOW CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STREAMFLOW;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84941995063     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016589     Document Type: Article

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