Paleoreconstruction of cool season precipitation and warm season streamflow in the Pacific Northwest with applications to climate change assessments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lutz, Eric R ^a,b   Hamlet, Alan F ^a,c   Littell, Jeremy S ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC EVENTS; COMBINED EFFECT; COOL SEASON PRECIPITATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; INDIRECT ASSOCIATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PHYSICALLY BASED; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; TEST CASE; TREE GROWTH; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES; WARM SEASONS; WASHINGTON STATE; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING;

FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPAIR; STREAM FLOW; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; STREAMFLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; TREES; WATER RESOURCES;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; YAKIMA BASIN;

EID: 84856274326     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010687     Document Type: Article

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