Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on surface runoff in a semi-humid and semi-arid transition zone in northwest China

Yin, Jing; He, Fan; Xiong, Yu Jiu; Qiu, Guo Yu

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-183-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-183-2017

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Modeling hydrological processes and changes

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-183-2017

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Articles | Volume 21, issue 1

Research article

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10 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 10 Jan 2017

Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on surface runoff in a semi-humid and semi-arid transition zone in northwest China

Jing Yin, Fan He, Yu Jiu Xiong, and Guo Yu Qiu

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Jan 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 06 Jun 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Effect of land use/land cover and climate changes on surface runoff in a semi-humid and semi-arid transition zone in Northwest China', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on surface runoff in a semi-humid and semi-arid transition zone in Northwest China', Yu Jiu Xiong, 31 Aug 2016
RC2: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Nov 2016
- AC2: 'Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on surface runoff in a semi-humid and semi-arid transition zone in Northwest China', Yu Jiu Xiong, 09 Nov 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (08 Nov 2016) by Qiuwen Chen

AR by Yu Jiu Xiong on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (17 Dec 2016) by Qiuwen Chen

AR by Yu Jiu Xiong on behalf of the Authors (18 Dec 2016)

Short summary

Conflicting results on the effect of the land use/land cover (LULC) and climate changes on runoff have been reported for relatively large basins. After quantifying the impacts of LULC and climate changes on surface runoff using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool, we concluded that large-scale LULC has had an important effect on the water cycle and that the conflicting findings on the effect of the LULC and climate changes on runoff are likely caused by uncertainty in hydrological simulations.