Hydrologic response of the Crow Wing Watershed, Minnesota, to mid-Holocene climate change

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 363-376

  Person, Mark ^a   Roy, Prasenjit ^b   Wright, Herb ^c   Gutowski Jr , William ^d   Ito, Emi ^c   Winter, Tom ^e   Rosenberry, Donald ^e   Cohen, Denis ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrogeology; Modeling; Paleohydrology; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; WATER-TABLE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW; WATER LEVELS;

WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAKE LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

CROW WING COUNTY; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WILLIAMS LAKE [MINNESOTA];

EID: 33947421269     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26003.1     Document Type: Article

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