Contributions of climate variability and human activities to the variation of runoff in the Wei River Basin, China

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1026-1039

  Huang, Shengzhi ^a   Liu, Dengfeng ^a   Huang, Qiang ^a   Chen, Yutong ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

heuristic segmentation method; human activities; inflection points; precipitation; runoff change; Wei River Basin

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

HEURISTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INFLECTION POINTS; RUNOFF CHANGES; WEI RIVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SEMIARID REGION;

CHINA; WEI BASIN; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84961208599     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2014.959955     Document Type: Article

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