Effects of runoff sensitivity and catchment characteristics on regional actual evapotranspiration trends in the conterminous US

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Jung, Il Won ^a   Chang, Heejun ^b   Risley, John ^c  

^a APEC Climate Center   (South Korea)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Oregon Health Sciences Center   (United States)

Author keywords

actual evapotranspiration; geographically weighted regression; runoff sensitivity; water availability

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; EVERGREEN FORESTS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891914043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044002     Document Type: Article

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