Temporal and seasonal trends in streamflow in the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah, and relation to climatic fluctuations

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 521-528

  Carson, Eric C ^a  

^a San Jacinto College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UINTA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 36448948247     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(06-072)[CARSON]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Aguado, E., Cayan, D., Riddle, L., and Roos, M., 1992: Climatic fluctuations and the timing of West Coast streamflow. Journal of Climate, 5: 1468-1483.
2. Atwood, W. W., 1909: Glaciation of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 61, 96 pp.
3. Baker, F. S., and Hauge, A. G., 1913: Report on Tie Operation of the Standard Timber Company on the Uinta National Forest, 1912-1913. Salt Lake City: Uinta National Forest.
4. Bradley, W. H., 1936: Geomorphology of the north flank of the Uinta Mountains. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 185-I: 163-199.
5. Carson, E. C., 2003: Fluvial responses to environmental change, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
6. Carson, E. C., 2005: Fluvial geomorphology and hydrology of the sub-alpine streams of the Uinta Mountains. In Dehler, C. M., Pederson, J. L., Sprinkel, D. A., and Kowallis, B. J. (eds.), Uinta Mountain Geology. Salt Lake City: Utah Geological Association Publication, 33: 171-187.
7. Cayan, D. R., and Webb, R. H., 1992: El Niño/Southern Oscillation and streamflow in the Western United States. In Diaz, H. F., and Markgraf, V. (eds.), El Niño; historical and palaeoclimatic aspects of the Southern Oscillation. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 29-68.
8. Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1986: A unified national program for floodplain management. Washington, D.C.: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Interagency Task Force on Floodplain Management.
9. Gleick, P. H., 1989: Climate change, hydrology, and water resources. Reviews of Geophysics, 27: 329-344.
10. Hansen, W. R., 1969: The Geologic story of the Uinta Mountains U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1291: 144 pp.
11. Hansen, W. R., 1986: Neogene tectonics and geomorphology of the eastern Uinta Mountains in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1356, 78 pp.
12. Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1986: Guidelines for determining flood flow frequency. Washington, D.C.: Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, Hydrology Subcommittee Bulletin, 17B.
13. Jain, S., and Lall, U., 2000: Magnitude and timing of annual maximum floods: trends and large-scale climatic associations for the Blacksmith Fork River, Utah. Water Resources Research, 36: 3641-3651.
14. Knox, J. C., 1999: Long-term episodic changes in magnitudes and frequencies of floods in the Upper Mississippi River Valley. In Brown, A. G., and Quine, T. A. (eds.), Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 255-282.
15. Mitchell, V. R., 1976: The regionalization of climate in the Western United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 15: 920-927.
16. Munroe, J. S., 2001: Late Quaternary history of the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
17. Pupacko, A., 1993: Variations in northern Sierra Nevada streamflow; implications of climate change. Water Resources Bulletin, 29: 283-290.
18. Schmidt, J. C., Smelser, M. G., Stamp, M. L., and Gaeuman, D. A., 2005: Channel adjustment in response to surface-water development in the Duchesne River Watershed. In Dehler, C. M., Pederson, J. L., Sprinkel, D. A., and Kowallis, B. J. (eds.), Uinta Mountain Geology. Salt Lake City: Utah Geological Association Publication, 33: 189-204.
19. Thomas, W. O. Jr., 1985: A uniform technique for flood-frequency analysis. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 111: 321-337.