Unraveling the mysteries of the large watershed black box: Implications for the streamflow response to climate and landscape perturbations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Frisbee, Marty D ^a   Phillips, Fred M ^a   Weissmann, Gary S ^b   Brooks, Paul D ^c   Wilson, John L ^a   Campbell, Andrew R ^a   Liu, Fengjing ^d,e  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

ALPINE WATERSHED; BLACK BOXES; DRAINAGE AREA; EXTERNAL FORCING; FLOWPATH; GENERATION PROCESS; LAND COVER; RAPID CHANGES; RELATIVE STRENGTH; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SCALE DEPENDENCY; SMALL CATCHMENT; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STREAM CHEMISTRY; STREAM NETWORKS; TEMPORAL SCALING; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WATERSHED SCALE;

LANDFORMS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PERTURBATION; RELIEF; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862954835     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050416     Document Type: Article

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