Coherent modes in multiscale variability of streamflow over the United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1049-1067

  Saco, Patricia ^a,b   Kumar, Praveen ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034036602     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900345     Document Type: Article

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