Stream temperature response to variable glacier coverage in coastal watersheds of Southeast Alaska

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2062-2073

  Fellman, Jason B ^a   Nagorski, Sonia ^a   Pyare, Sanjay ^a   Vermilyea, Andrew W ^a   Scott, Durelle ^b   Hood, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier; Hydrology; Pacific salmon; Stream temperature; Thermal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATERSHEDS; GLACIAL MELTWATER; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; PACIFIC SALMON; STREAM TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; THERMAL SENSITIVITY; WATERSHED LANDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION;

WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HYDROGRAPH; MELTWATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SPAWNING; STREAMWATER; WATERSHED;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS;

EID: 84892432471     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9742     Document Type: Article

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