Climatic sensitivity of streamflow timing in the extratropical western Andes Cordillera

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 405, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 93-109

  Cortés, Gonzalo ^a   Vargas, Ximena ^a   McPhee, James ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Andes Cordillera; Climate change; Hydroclimatology; Streamflow timing; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ANDES CORDILLERA; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EXTRATROPICAL; FLOW REGIMES; HISTORICAL DATA; HYDROCLIMATOLOGY; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MANN-KENDALL TEST; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; SNOWMELT; SPRING TEMPERATURES; STREAMFLOW DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; STREAMFLOW TIMING; STREAMFLOW TIMINGS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; TIME WINDOWS; WATER YEAR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RAIN; RIVERS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RIVER FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; WATERSHED;

ANDES; CHILE; CORDILLERA; PARAGUAY;

EID: 79960026069     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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