Research Article

Separation of the Climatic and Land Cover Impacts on the Flow Regime Changes in Two Watersheds of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Table 1

The flow regime metrics selected to describe streamflow paradigm.

NumberGroupsFlow regimesHydrological metricsAbbreviation

1MagnitudeAverage flowAverage monthly flowMMF
2Low-flowLow monthly flow (75th percentile)Lw75
3High-flowHigh monthly flow (25th percentile)Hg25
4VariabilityAverage flowCoefficient of variation of monthly flowCvMF
5DurationMedian flowTime exceeded of median flowDMF
6ComponentBase flowBase flow indexBFI