The multi-time-scale correlations for drought-flood index to runoff and North Atlantic Oscillation in the headstreams of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Hydrology Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 253-264

  Ling, Hongbo ^a   Deng, Xiaoya ^b   Long, Aihua ^b   Gao, Haifeng ^c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cross wavelet; Drought flood index; Headstreams of the Tarim River; Multi scale correlation; Runoff process

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DROUGHT; RIVERS; RUNOFF; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CROSS-WAVELET; FLOOD INDEX; RUNOFF PROCESS; SCALE CORRELATION; TARIM RIVER;

FLOODS;

DROUGHT; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RUNOFF; TIMESCALE; WATER RESOURCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 85016596403     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2016.166     Document Type: Article

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