Detection of flooding responses at the river basin scale enhanced by land use change

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  McCormick, Brian C ^a   Eshleman, Keith N ^a   Griffith, Jeff L ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMUM FLOW; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DEEP MINES; DEEP MINING; FLOOD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; LAND-USE CHANGE; MARYLAND; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; PRECIPITATION DATA; RIVER BASINS; RIVER WATERSHEDS; STORM EVENTS; STORM FLOW; SURFACE MINING; TREND ANALYSIS;

FLOODS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MINING; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER DIVERSION;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COAL MINING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; INFILTRATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; STORM; STORM SURGE; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE LAYER; TREND ANALYSIS; WATERSHED; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GEORGES CREEK; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; SAVAGE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349762648     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007594     Document Type: Article

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