Assessing the impacts of the urban heat island effect on streamflow patterns in Ottawa, Canada

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 496, Issue , 2013, Pages 225-237

  Adamowski, Jan ^a   Prokoph, Andreas ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SPEEDSTAT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate change; Streamflow; Urban heat island effect; Urban water; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; CROSS-WAVELET TRANSFORM; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS; URBAN WATERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; LASERS; RAIN; RIVERS; RURAL AREAS; STREAM FLOW; THERMAL POLLUTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; HEAT ISLAND; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RURAL AREA; STREAMFLOW; WARMING;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA; RIDEAU RIVER;

EID: 84879427661     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.05.032     Document Type: Article

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