Predicting regime shifts in flow of the Colorado River

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Gangopadhyay, Subhrendu ^a   McCabe, Gregory J ^b  

^a U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

ADVERSE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COLORADO RIVER; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DRY AND WET; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGIC EFFECTS; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; JOINT EFFECT; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; NATURAL CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD; REGIME SHIFT; SPECIFIC REGIME; STAKE HOLDERS; WATER MANAGERS; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WET AND DRY;

MANAGERS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOW PATTERN; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PALEOCLIMATE; RIVER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 78149243794     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044513     Document Type: Article

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