Impact of climate change on runoff from a mid-latitude mountainous catchment in central Japan

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1418-1429

  Shinohara, Yoshinori ^a   Kumagai, Tomo'omi ^a   Otsuki, Kyoichi ^a   Kume, Atsushi ^a   Wada, Naoya ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Greenhouse warming; Snow hydrology; Snowmelt; Stochastic processes; Temperate forest; Water balance

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE WARMING; SNOW HYDROLOGY; SNOWMELT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATE FOREST; WATER BALANCE;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSES; HYDRAULIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RUNOFF; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WATER;

WATER RESOURCES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; WATER BUDGET;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 65449132353     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7264     Document Type: Article

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