Assessing the expression of large-scale climatic fluctuations in the hydrological variability of daily Seine river flow (France) between 1950 and 2008 using Hilbert-Huang Transform

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 448-449, Issue , 2012, Pages 119-128

  Massei, Nicolas ^a   Fournier, Matthieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Climate fluctuations; Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition; Hilbert Huang Transform; Hydrological variability; North Atlantic Oscillation; Seine river flow

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABILITY; NORTH-ATLANTIC; RIVER FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RIVER FLOW; TIMESCALE;

FRANCE; SEINE RIVER;

EID: 84862024394     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.04.052     Document Type: Article

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