Review of Advances in Hydrologic Science in China in the Last Decades: Impact Study of Climate Change and Human Activities
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 18, Issue 11
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Acknowledgments
The work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013BAC10B01) and key grant of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZZD-EW-12), the Australian Endeavour Fellowship Program, and CSIRO Computational and Simulation Sciences Transformational Capability Platform. Finally, cordial thanks are also extended to the editors and three referees for their valuable comments which greatly improved the quality of this paper.
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Received: Jun 15, 2010
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