Late 20th-century trends in Iowa watersheds: An investigation of observed and modelled hydrologic storages and fluxes in heavily managed landscapes

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1373-1391

  Steffens, Kayla J ^a   Franz, K J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrologic modelling; Hydrologic trends; Land use; Midwest USA

Indexed keywords

CHANGE ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DAILY DISCHARGE; FROZEN GROUND; HUMAN INFLUENCES; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; HYDROLOGIC TRENDS; IN-PROCESS; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MANN-KENDALL; MIDWEST USA; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL RESULTS; SNOW COVERS; SUBSURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DATA; TIME-PERIODS; UPWARD TREND;

LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FROZEN GROUND; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER CONTENT; WATERSHED;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863626373     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2361     Document Type: Article

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