Streamflow Responses to Climate Change: Analysis of Hydrologic Indicators in a New York City Water Supply Watershed

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1308-1326

  Pradhanang, Soni M ^a   Mukundan, Rajith ^a   Schneiderman, Elliot M ^b   Zion, Mark S ^b   Anandhi, Aavudai ^c   Pierson, Donald C ^b   Frei, Allan ^a   Easton, Zachary M ^d   Fuka, Daniel ^e   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic biota; Flow regimes; Hydrologic modeling; Indicator of hydrologic alterations; SWAT WB

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

AQUATIC BIOTA; FLOW REGIMES; HYDROLOGIC ALTERATIONS; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; SWAT-WB;

STREAM FLOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LOW FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWPACK; STREAMFLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897103496     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12086     Document Type: Article

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