Northern Rocky Mountain streamflow records: Global warming trends, human impacts or natural variability?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Jacques, Jeannine Marie St ^a   Sauchyn, David J ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; TREND ANALYSIS;

STREAM FLOW;

EID: 78650298321     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042045     Document Type: Article

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