Streamflow responses to past and projected future changes in climate at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Campbell, John L ^a   Driscoll, Charles T ^b   Pourmokhtarian, Afshin ^b   Hayhoe, Katharine ^c  

^a Northern Research Station   (United States)

^b Syracuse University   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; DENSELY POPULATED REGIONS; DOWNSTREAM WATER SUPPLY; EFFECT OF CO; FOREST WATERSHEDS; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE TRENDS; HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LONG TERM RECORDS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PEAK DISCHARGE; SMALL WATERSHEDS; SNOWMELT; SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION; WATER YIELD;

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAGNITUDE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE WATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; FORESTS; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATER; TRANSPIRATION;

HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951787669     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009438     Document Type: Article

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