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Hydrological effects of climate variability and vegetation dynamics on annual fluvial water balance in global large river basins
Jianyu Liu
Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China
University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Qiang Zhang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Ministry
of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Faculty of Geographical Science, Academy of Disaster Reduction and
Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Vijay P. Singh
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Zachry
Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas, USA
Changqing Song
Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Ministry
of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Faculty of Geographical Science, Academy of Disaster Reduction and
Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Yongqiang Zhang
CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
College of Geography and Tourism, Anhui Normal University, Anhui
241000, China
Xihui Gu
Department of Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental
Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-75, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-75, 2024
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 3847–3861, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3847-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3847-2022, 2022
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Peichao Gao, Yifan Gao, Xiaodan Zhang, Sijing Ye, and Changqing Song
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-123, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-123, 2022
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Solomon Vimal and Vijay P. Singh
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 445–467, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-445-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-445-2022, 2022
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3411–3427, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3411-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3411-2021, 2021
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Pengcheng Xu, Dong Wang, Vijay P. Singh, Yuankun Wang, Jichun Wu, Huayu Lu, Lachun Wang, Jiufu Liu, and Jianyun Zhang
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-358, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-358, 2019
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Junlong Zhang, Yongqiang Zhang, Jinxi Song, Lei Cheng, Rong Gan, Xiaogang Shi, Zhongkui Luo, and Panpan Zhao
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-737, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-737, 2017
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-359, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-359, 2017
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Hongxia Li and Yongqiang Zhang
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2016-464, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2016-464, 2016
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J. Vaze, Y. Q. Zhang, and L. Zhang
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 3707–3720, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3707-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3707-2013, 2013
Y. Zhou, Y. Zhang, J. Vaze, P. Lane, and S. Xu
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-10-4397-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-10-4397-2013, 2013
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The climate is subject to variations which must be considered
studying the intensity and frequency of extreme events.
We introduce in this paper a new methodology
for the study of variable extremes, which consists in detecting
the pattern of variability of a time series, and applying these patterns
to the analysis of the extreme events.
This technique comes with advantages with respect to the previous ones
in terms of accuracy, simplicity, and robustness.
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D. Brochero, F. Anctil, and C. Gagné
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D. Brochero, F. Anctil, and C. Gagné
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 3327–3341, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-3327-2011, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-3327-2011, 2011
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Short summary
Considering effective precipitation (Pe), the Budyko framework was extended to the annual water balance analysis. To reflect the mismatch between water supply (precipitation, P) and energy (potential evapotranspiration,
E0), a climate seasonality and asynchrony index (SAI) were proposed in terms of both phase and amplitude mismatch between P and E0.
Considering effective precipitation (Pe), the Budyko framework was extended to the annual water...
