Mapping Water Vulnerability of the Yangtze River Basin: 1994–2013

Environmental Management

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 857-872

  Sun, Fengyun ^a   Kuang, Wenhui ^b   Xiang, Weining ^a   Che, Yue ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

FDC; IHA; Integrated hydrologic assessment; SWAT; Water vulnerability; Yangtze River Basin

Indexed keywords

RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

INTEGRATED HYDROLOGIC ASSESSMENT; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; SWAT; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; WATER VULNERABILITIES; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN;

WATER RESOURCES;

FRESH WATER; WATER;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; KNOWLEDGE; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLUID BALANCE; FLUID INTAKE; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION; RIVER BASIN; SOIL; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER VULNERABILITY; CHINA; HYDROLOGY; RIVER; STANDARDS; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA; YANGTZE BASIN;

CHINA; HYDROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84990830633     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-016-0756-5     Document Type: Article

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