Technical Note: Glacial influence in tropical mountain hydrosystems evidenced by the diurnal cycle in water levels

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4803-4816

  Cauvy Fraunie S ^a,b,c,d   Condom, T ^e   Rabatel, A ^e   Villacis, M ^f   Jacobsen, D ^g   Dangles, O ^a,b,c,d  

^a France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY; GLACIAL INFLUENCES; GLACIAL MELTWATER; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SCALE-AVERAGED WAVELET POWER; SYSTEM INTERFACES; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SHRINKAGE; WATER LEVELS; WATER QUALITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; MELTWATER; STREAMWATER; TROPICAL REGION; WATER LEVEL; WAVELET;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

EID: 84890052693     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-4803-2013     Document Type: Article

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