Hydro-climatic variability and trends in washington state for the last 50 years

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 866-878

  Fu, Guobin ^a   Barber, Michael E ^b   Chen, Shulin ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change and variability; Hydro climate trend; Kendall test; Pacific northwest; Washington state

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL MEAN; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARITHMETIC MEAN; CLIMATE TRENDS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; MEDIAN VALUE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; WASHINGTON STATE;

LAND USE; STEEL BRIDGES; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77951653445     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7527     Document Type: Article

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