Detection time for plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow in three Mississippi River sub-basins

Climatic Change

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 17-36

  Ziegler, Alan D ^a   Maurer, Edwin P ^b   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Nijssen, Bart ^c   Wood, Eric F ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Santa Clara University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WATER;

HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABLES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PARALLEL CLIMATE MODEL (PCM); VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY (VIC);

RIVERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STREAMFLOW;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26444454488     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-5379-4     Document Type: Article

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