A new drought index that considers the joint effects of climate and land surface change

Water Resources Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 3262-3278

  Liu, Meixian ^a   Xu, Xianli ^a   Xu, Chaohao ^a   Sun, Alexander Y ^b   Wang, Kelin ^a   Scanlon, Bridget R ^b   Zhang, Lu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

earth critical zone; ecohydrology; global warming; human activity; soil hydrology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TREATMENT;

CRITICAL ZONES; ECO-HYDROLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; LAND SURFACE CHANGE; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; SELF-CALIBRATED PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; SOIL HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; ECOHYDROLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDEX METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL WATER; STANDARDIZATION;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG BASIN; SHAANXI; WUDINGHE BASIN;

EID: 85018621142     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR020178     Document Type: Article

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