Climate teleconnections to Yangtze river seasonal streamflow at the Three Gorges Dam, China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 771-780

  Xu, Kaiqin ^a,b   Brown, Casey ^c   Kwon, Hyun Han ^b   Lall, Upmanu ^b,c   Zhang, Jiqun ^d   Hayashi, Seiji ^a   Chen, Zhongyuan ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^e EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate indices; Regression analysis; Streamflow prediction; Three Gorges Dam; Yangtze (Changjiang) River

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE INDICES; CLIMATE VARIABLES; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; THREE GORGES DAM;

DAMS;

INFLOW; MONSOON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TELECONNECTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE RIVER; YICHANG;

EID: 34248221566     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1437     Document Type: Article

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