Ground Water Occurrence and Contributions to Streamflow in an Alpine Catchment, Colorado Front Range

GroundWater

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 937-950

  Clow, D W ^a   Schrott, L ^b   Webb, R ^a   Campbell, D H ^a   Torizzo, A ^a,c   Dornblaser, M ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Ross Environmental Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE CATCHMENTS; CLIMATIC FACTORS; COLORADO FRONT RANGE; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; STORAGE CAPACITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; PERMAFROST; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STORMS; STREAM FLOW;

GROUNDWATER;

EID: 6344279075     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2003.tb02436.x     Document Type: Article

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