Relationships between Spatial and Temporal Variations in Precipitation, Climatic Indices, and the Normalized Differential Vegetation Index in the Upper and Middle Reaches of the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Fanglei Zhong, Qingping Cheng, Yinchun Ge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: precipitation indices; large-scale circulations; NDVI; Heihe River Basin; Hydraulic engineering; TC1-978; Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes; TD201-500; Arctic; Kendall; Pacific; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11071394; https://doaj.org/article/de19e3ae83644d8e8f56911e0bc3d84e

Changes in precipitation are critical indicators of climate change. In this study, the daily precipitation records from 10 meteorological stations in the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China from 1961−2016, precipitation indices, climate indices, and the normalized differential vegetation index (NDVI)...