Using Pacific Ocean climatic variability to improve hydrologic reconstructions

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 434-435, Issue , 2012, Pages 69-77

  Anderson, SallyRose ^a   Aziz, Oubeid ^a   Tootle, Glenn ^a   Grissino Mayer, Henri ^b   Barnett, Anthony ^c  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Colorado River Basin; Ocean variability; Reconstruction; Snowpack; SVD

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; GREEN RIVER; HIGHER-DEGREE; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; OCEAN VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD); SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SPATIAL AREA; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REPAIR; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INDEX METHOD; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; TELECONNECTION;

COLORADO; HYDROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; WATER SHEDS;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; GREEN BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859105089     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.037     Document Type: Article

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