The regional persistence and variability of annual streamflow in the United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3445-3459

  Vogel, Richard M ^a   Tsai, Yushiou ^a   Limbrunner, James F ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENEITY; PERSISTENCE; REGIONAL PATTERN; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCES;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; GAUGING STATIONS; HURST COEFFICIENT; SAMPLING PROPERTIES; SERIAL CORRELATION; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; STREAMFLOW STATISTICS;

STREAM FLOW;

EID: 0032442678     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02523     Document Type: Article

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