Identification of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature influences of Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Aziz, Oubeidillah A ^a   Tootle, Glenn A ^a   Gray, Stephen T ^b   Piechota, Thomas C ^c  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATIC DRIVERS; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; CRITICAL REGION; DATA SETS; LEADTIME; PACIFIC OCEAN; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; RESEARCH; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RIVER BASIN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; STREAMFLOW; WATER SUPPLY; FORECASTING METHOD; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; COLORADO; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77955216778     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008053     Document Type: Article

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