An assessment of long-term trends in hydrologic components and implications for water levels in lake superior

Hydrology Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 564-579

  Motiee, Homayoun ^a,b   McBean, Edward ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Great Lakes; Lake Superior; Mann Kendall; Regression modelling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; GREAT LAKES; HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY; HYDROLOGIC COMPONENTS; LAKE EVAPORATION; LAKE SUPERIOR; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; LONG TERM RECORDS; LONG-TERM TREND; MANN-KENDALL; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION MODELLING; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHIPS; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

LAKES;

CARGO; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; LAKE LEVEL; POWER GENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER LEVEL; WATER RESOURCE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 76049083828     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2009.061     Document Type: Article

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