Spatial and temporal soil moisture and drought variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 379, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 122-135

  Tang, Chunling ^a   Piechota, Thomas C ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Soil moisture; Spatial; Temporal; Upper Colorado River Basin; Wavelet analysis and wavelet coherency

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DEEP LAYER; DEEP LAYER SOILS; DEEP SOIL MOISTURE; DRY CONDITION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MAP ANALYSIS; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; POSITIVE VALUE; SPATIAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THREE-LAYER; UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; WET CONDITIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; RIVER BASIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; VULNERABILITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70350589310     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.09.052     Document Type: Article

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