Hydroclimatic controls on water balance and water level variability in Great Slave Lake

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4155-4172

  Gibson, John J ^a   Prowse, Terry D ^a   Peters, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate impacts; Evaporation; Great Lakes; Northern hydrology; Water budget

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EVAPORATION; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATE IMPACTS; HYDROCLIMATIC CONTROLS; WATER BALANCE; WATER BUDGET;

FLOW OF WATER;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EVAPORATION; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPORATION; LAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER FLOW; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL;

CANADA; GREAT SLAVE LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 33645466302     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6424     Document Type: Article

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