Statistical comparisons of watershed-scale response to climate change in selected basins across the United States

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1-26

  Risley, John ^a   Moradkhani, Hamid ^b   Hay, Lauren ^c   Markstrom, Steve ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Groundwater; Rainfall; Snowmelt; Streamflow; Watershed modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961092436     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010EI364.1     Document Type: Article

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