Identifying step changes in single streamflow and evaporation records due to forest cover change

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-116

  Chappell, Nick A ^a   Tych, Wlodek ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Logging; Plynlimon; Tropics; Unobserved components Dynamic Harmonic Regression

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; AVAILABLE WATER; CHANGE-POINTS; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CRITICAL ISSUES; FOREST COVER CHANGE; HARMONIC REGRESSION; HYDROLOGICAL TIME-SERIES; IMPACT STUDY; INTERANNUAL; LAND-COVER CHANGE; PLYNLIMON; RELATIVE IMPACT; SPATIAL EXTENT; STEP CHANGES;

AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; LOGGING (FORESTRY); PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFORESTATION; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TIMBER; TROPICS; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AFFORESTATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPORATION; FOREST COVER; HYDROLOGY; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

AGRICULTURE; EVAPORATION; FORESTATION; FORESTS; LOGGING; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TROPICS; WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84855203539     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8115     Document Type: Article

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