Long-term streamflow trends in the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin: Detecting drivers of change

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1315-1329

  Gao, Zhaoliang ^a   Zhang, Lu ^b   Zhang, Xiaoping ^a   Cheng, Lei ^b   Potter, Nick ^b   Cowan, Tim ^b,c   Cai, Wenju ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual streamflow trends; Climate variability; Land use change; Loess Plateau; Rainfall runoff relationship

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE SHIFT; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; WATERSHEDS;

ANNUAL STREAMFLOW TRENDS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOESS PLATEAU; RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84947968208     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10704     Document Type: Article

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