Reconstructing snowmelt in Idaho's watershed using historic streamflow records

Climatic Change

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 155-176

  Kunkel, Melvin L ^a   Pierce, Jennifer L ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROGRAPHS; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK TELEMETRIES; STREAM GAGES; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; STUDY AREAS; WARMING CLIMATE; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; REPAIR; STREAM FLOW; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATERSHEDS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RECONSTRUCTION; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; STREAMFLOW; TELEMETRY; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72749083365     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9651-x     Document Type: Article

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