An error analysis of the Budyko hypothesis for assessing the contribution of climate change to runoff

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9620-9629

  Yang, Hanbo ^a   Yang, Dawen ^a   Hu, Qingfang ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Budyko hypothesis; climate elasticity; error; potential evaporation; precipitation; runoff

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RUNOFF; TAYLOR SERIES;

BUDYKO HYPOTHESIS; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; FIRST ORDER; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; TAYLOR EXPANSIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RUNOFF;

EID: 85027955552     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015451     Document Type: Article

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