Availability, volatility, stability, and teleconnectivity changes in prairie water supply from Canadian Rocky Mountain sources over the last millennium

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-74

  Fleming, Sean W ^a,b   Sauchyn, David J ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING DESIGN; LONG-TERM VIABILITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL DISPERSION; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; WATER SUPPLY PLANNING;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DESIGN; DROUGHT; MODELS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

LANDFORMS;

DECADAL VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISPERSION; DROUGHT; LAND USE CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRAIRIE; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

CANADA; NORTH SASKATCHEWAN BASIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SASKATCHEWAN RIVER; SOUTH SASKATCHEWAN BASIN;

EID: 84876591050     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012831     Document Type: Article

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