The paradox of cooling streams in a warming world: Regional climate trends do not parallel variable local trends in stream temperature in the Pacific continental United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Arismendi, Ivan ^a   Johnson, Sherri L ^b   Dunham, Jason B ^c   Haggerty, Roy ^a   Hockman Wert, David ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SENSOR NETWORKS; STREAM FLOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE IMPACTS; COOLING TRENDS; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; HUMAN IMPACT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STREAM TEMPERATURES;

TIME SERIES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSOR;

PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861385342     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051448     Document Type: Article

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