Water consumption of agriculture and natural ecosystems along the Ili river in china and kazakhstan

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Thevs, Niels ^a,b   Nurtazin, Sabir ^c   Beckmann, Volker ^b   Salmyrzauli, Ruslan ^c   Khalil, Altyn ^b  

^a World Agroforestry Center   (Kyrgyzstan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c AL FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Central asia; Evapotranspiration; Lake balkhash; MODIS; Remote sensing; Transboundary river; Upstream downstream conflict; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IRRIGATION; LAKES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

CENTRAL ASIA; IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; MODIS; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SIMPLIFIED SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE INDICES; TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS; UPSTREAM-DOWNSTREAM CONFLICT;

RIVERS;

BOUNDARY DISPUTE; DESICCATION; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARAL SEA; CHINA; ILI RIVER; KAZAKHSTAN; LAKE BALKHASH;

EID: 85015072984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9030207     Document Type: Article

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