Impacts of Climatic Change on Hydrological Regime in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China, 1960-2009

• Published in: Water resources management Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 115 - 131
• Main Authors: Mao, Tianxu, Wang, Genxu, Zhang, Tao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Annual runoff; Atmospheric Sciences; China; Civil Engineering; Climate change; Discharge measurement; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environment; Environmental impact; Flow duration; Gaging stations; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Global warming; Headwaters; Hydrogeology; Hydrologic regime; Hydrology; Hydrology/Water Resources; meteorological data; Permafrost; Precipitation; Regions; Rivers; Runoff; Runoff coefficient; spatial variation; Stations; Stream discharge; Studies; temperature; temporal variation; Trends; water management; Water resources; Water resources management; Yangtze River; Yellow River; China; Yangtze River; Yellow River; China, People's Rep., Changjiang R; China, People's Rep., Huang He R; Hydrological regime; Mann-Kendall test; Climatic change; Three-River Headwaters Region

To identify the changing characteristics of runoff and climate change trends and their relationship in the Three-River Headwaters Region (TRHR), this study uses the runoff and meteorological data of three hydrological gauging stations and 12 meteorological stations across the TRHR for the period fro...