Climate impacts on hydrological variables in the Mackenzie River Basin

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 209-230

  Yip, Queenie K Y ^a   Burn, Donald H ^a   Seglenieks, Frank ^a   Pietroniro, Al ^b   Soulis, Eric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE IMPACTS; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; GENERAL PATTERNS; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES; INPUT DATAS; MACKENZIE RIVER BASIN; MANN-KENDALL; NON-PARAMETRIC; NORTHERN CANADA; OBSERVED DATA; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REANALYSIS; TREND TESTS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RUNOFF;

EID: 84865798590     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj2011-899     Document Type: Article

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