Precipitation variability and its relationship to hydrologic variability in Alberta

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3040-3056

  Mwale, Davison ^a   Gan, Thian Yew ^b   Devito, Kevin ^b   Mendoza, Carl ^b   Silins, Uldis ^b   Petrone, Richard ^c  

^a Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Climate variability; Wavelet empirical orthogonal functions

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBERTA; BOREAL FORESTS; CLIMATE REGIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY PATTERNS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERIODIC CYCLES; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SUB-ALPINE; SUB-REGIONS; WAVELET EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

FOURIER ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RUNOFF; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CLIMATES; FLUIDICS; FORESTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70350135041     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7415     Document Type: Article

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