Spring flood reconstruction from continuous and discrete tree ring series

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Boucher, É Tienne ^a   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^a   Bégin, Yves ^a   Nicault, Antoine ^a  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAY AREAS; CONCOMITANT EFFECTS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DISCRETE EVENTS; DISCRETE SERIES; DISCRETE VARIABLES; EARLYWOOD DENSITY; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; HYDROELECTRIC RESERVOIRS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NORTHERN ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN QUEBEC; RING WIDTH; SPRING DISCHARGES; SPRING FLOODS; TRANSFER MODELS; TREE GROWTH; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; TWO SOURCES;

FLOODS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER LEVELS; WATER SUPPLY;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; GROWTH RATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SPRING WATER; STREAMFLOW; TREE RING;

CANADA; CANIAPISCAU RESERVOIR; JAMES BAY; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 79960226729     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010131     Document Type: Article

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