Significance of trends toward earlier snowmelt runoff, Columbia and Missouri Basin headwaters, western United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Moore, Johnnie N ^a   Harper, Joel T ^a   Greenwood, Mark C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; UNITED STATES;

BASIN HEADWATERS; REGRESSION MODELS; SNOWMELT RUNOFF;

SNOW;

HEADWATER; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT;

COLUMBIA BASIN; MISSOURI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35948988099     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031022     Document Type: Article

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