Glacier Impacts on Summer Streamflow in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 521-527

  Bell, Jeb ^a   Tootle, Glenn ^b   Pochop, Larry ^c   Kerr, Greg ^c   Sivanpillai, Ramesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciers meltwater streamflow

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; GREEN RIVER; IMAGERY ANALYSIS; INTERNAL STORAGE; LIQUID WATER; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SNOWMELT RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW VARIABILITY; VOLUME CHANGE; WATERSHED FLOWS; WIND RIVER; WYOMING;

LAKES; LANDFORMS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

GLACIER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; SUMMER; WATERSHED;

GREEN RIVER; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

EID: 84860156561     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000469     Document Type: Article

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