Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1515-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1515-2017
Research article
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10 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 10 Mar 2017

Vegetation dynamics and climate seasonality jointly control the interannual catchment water balance in the Loess Plateau under the Budyko framework

Tingting Ning, Zhi Li, and Wenzhao Liu

Data sets

NASA GIMMS AVHRR Global NDVI (3g) (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index-3rd generation) NASA Earth Exchange https://nex.nasa.gov/nex/projects/1349/

Dataset of Daily Climate Data from Chinese Surface Stations for Global Exchange (V3.0) China Meteorological Data Service Center http://data.cma.cn/data/detail/dataCode/SURF_CLI_CHN_ MUL_DAY_CES_V3.0.html

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Short summary
The relationship between controlling parameters of annual catchment water balance and climate seasonality (S) and vegetation coverage (M) was discussed under the Budyko framework and an empirical equation was further developed so that the contributions from M to actual evapotranspiration (ET) could be determined more accurately. The results showed that the effects of landscape condition changes to ET variation will be estimated with a large error if the impacts of S are ignored.