Climate and direct human contributions to changes in mean annual streamflow in the South Atlantic, USA

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7278-7291

  Patterson, Lauren A ^a   Lutz, Brian ^b   Doyle, Martin W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Budyko; climate impacts; human impacts; South Atlantic; streamflow change

Indexed keywords

BUDYKO; CLIMATE IMPACTS; HUMAN IMPACT; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STREAMFLOW CHANGES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887181428     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014618     Document Type: Article

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