An Integrative Approach to Understand the Climatic-Hydrological Process: A Case Study of Yarkand River, Northwest China

Table 1

Statistical check for variable’s autocorrelation.

Dependent variable	Independent variable	Function		𝑅^2	𝐹	DW
AR𝑡	AR𝑡−1	AR𝑡=76.852−0.156AR𝑡−1	(1*)	0.024	1.125	1.981
AAT𝑡	AAT𝑡−1	AAT𝑡=2.526−0.290AAT𝑡−1	(2*)	0.093	5.014	1.835
AP𝑡	AP𝑡−1	AP𝑡=81.338−0.118AP𝑡−1	(3*)	0.013	0.659	1.851
AR𝑡	AAT𝑡, AP𝑡, AR𝑡−1	AR𝑡=66.677+3.191AAT𝑡−0.025AP𝑡−0.145AR𝑡−1	(4*)	0.091	1.572	2.023
AR𝑡	AAT𝑡, AP𝑡, AR𝑡−1, AAT𝑡−1, AP𝑡−1	AR𝑡=62.516+2.051AAT𝑡−0.048AP𝑡−0.186AR𝑡−1+2.702AAT𝑡−1+0.042AP𝑡−1	(5*)	0.123	1.266	1.931

Notes. AR: annual runoff, AAT: annual average temperature, and AP: annual precipitation; the subscripts, 𝑡 and 𝑡−1, represent time.