Investigation of the drought–flood abrupt alternation of streamflow in Poyang Lake catchment during the last 50 years

Hydrology Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1402-1417

  Li, Xianghu ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a,b   Zhang, Dan ^a   Ye, Xuchun ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought flood abrupt alternation; Poyang Lake catchment; Precipitation; Streamflow; | DFAAI

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DROUGHT; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

ANNUAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OCCURRENCE PATTERN; PARTICULAR DISTRIBUTION; PO-YANG LAKES; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SUMMER MONSOON; | DFAAI;

FLOODS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; DROUGHT; FLOOD CONTROL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE;

EID: 85041494543     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2016.266     Document Type: Article

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