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Evaluation of blue and green water resources in the upper Yellow River basin of China
Xiaoxi Gao
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Depeng Zuo
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Hydrological Cycle and Sponge City Technology, Beijing 100875, China
Zongxue Xu
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Hydrological Cycle and Sponge City Technology, Beijing 100875, China
Siyang Cai
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Han Xianming
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Short summary
The blue and green water resources in the upper Yellow River basin (UYRB) were evaluated by the SWAT model in this study. The results show that the average annual total amount of water resources in the UYRB was 140.5 billion m3, in which the blue water resources is 37.8 billion m3, and green water resources is 107.7 billion m3. The intra-annual variability, inter-annual variabilityand spatial distribution of the blue water and green water is relatively similar.
The blue and green water resources in the upper Yellow River basin (UYRB) were evaluated by the...
