Diagnosing climate change and hydrological responses in the past decades for a minimally-disturbed headwater basin in South China

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4385-4400

  Wu, Yiping ^a   Cheng, Dongsheng ^b   Yan, Wende ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^a   Xiang, Wenhua ^a   Chen, Ji ^c   Hu, Yueming ^d   Wu, Qian ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Hydrological responses; SWAT; Trend analysis; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER RESOURCES; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; SWAT; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER CYCLE; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RIVER BASIN; TIMESCALE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; DONG RIVER;

EID: 85027948739     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0758-0     Document Type: Article

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