Contributions of climate and human activities to changes in runoff of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers from 1950 to 2008

• Published in: Science China. Earth sciences Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 1398 - 1412
• Main Authors: Wang, Yan, Ding, YongJian, Ye, BaiSheng, Liu, FengJing, Wang, Jie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2013; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Annual runoff; Climate change; Climatic data; Discharge measurement; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth science; Earth Sciences; Evaporation; Freshwater; Gaging stations; Human influences; Humid areas; Hydrology; Land reclamation; Precipitation; Research Paper; River basins; Rivers; Runoff; Runoff coefficient; Stations; Stream discharge; Trends; Urbanization; Water use; 人类活动; 半湿润地区; 年径流系列; 径流系数; 气候变化; 气象观测站; 长江流域; 黄河流域; Yellow River; Yangtze River; China, People's Rep., Changjiang R; China, People's Rep., Huang He R; precipitation; runoff coefficients; runoff; human activity; climate change; Yellow River; Yangtze River

Runoffs in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, China, have been changing constantly during the last half century. In this paper, data from eight river gauging stations and 529 meteorological stations, inside and adjacent to the study basins, were analyzed and compared to quantify the hydrolog...