Streamflow decline in southwestern Australia, 1950-2008

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Petrone, Kevin C ^a   Hughes, Justin D ^b   Van Niel, Thomas G ^a   Silberstein, Richard P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Alcoa of Australia ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; AUSTRALIA; CHANGE-POINT ANALYSIS; CHANGE-POINTS; DRINKING WATER; EPHEMERAL STREAMS; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA; STEP CHANGES; TREND TESTS;

CATCHMENTS; POTABLE WATER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INFLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESERVOIR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77953591810     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043102     Document Type: Article

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