Snow cover and precipitation impacts on dry season streamflow in the Lower Mekong Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Cook, B I ^a,b   Bell, A R ^c   Anchukaitis, K J ^b   Buckley, B M ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DRY SEASONS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GAUGING STATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONG-TERM TREND; MEKONG RIVER; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REGRESSION MODEL; SNOW COVERS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISCHARGE; DRY SEASON; FARMING SYSTEM; GAUGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOW COVER; STREAMFLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CAMBODIA; KRACHEH; LAOS; MEKONG BASIN; VIENTIANE;

EID: 84865840748     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017708     Document Type: Article

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