Coupling snowpack and groundwater dynamics to interpret historical streamflow trends in the western United States

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 655-668

  Safeeq, Mohammad ^a   Grant, Gordon E ^b   Lewis, Sarah L ^a   Tague, Christina L ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Groundwater processes; Hydrologic processes; Streamflow trend; Warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE WARMING; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DRAINAGE EFFICIENCY; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER PROCESS; HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; LAND MANAGERS; PRECIPITATION REGIMES; PRIMARY CONTROL; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK ACCUMULATION; STREAMFLOW SENSITIVITIES; WARMING; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; LASERS; RAIN; SNOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

STREAM FLOW;

COUPLING; DISCHARGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWPACK; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874191939     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9628     Document Type: Article

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