The importance of warm season warming to western U.S. streamflow changes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Das, Tapash ^a,b   Pierce, David W ^a   Cayan, Daniel R ^a,c   Vano, Julie A ^d   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CH2M HILL   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANNUAL FLOW; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE WARMING; COLUMBIA; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; RIVER BASINS; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE CHANGES; STREAMFLOW CHANGES; WARM SEASONS;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER BASIN; SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW;

COLORADO; COLUMBIA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84055188733     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049660     Document Type: Article

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