Drainage basin responses to climate change

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2031-2047

  Tucker, Gregory E ^a   Slingerland, Rudy ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CHANNEL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE BASIN; RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EROSION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION; WEATHERING;

CYCLIC VARIATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EROSION THRESHOLDS; GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; VEGETATION COVER; WEATHERING PROCESS;

CATCHMENTS;

EID: 0030847225     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR00409     Document Type: Article

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