A precipitation shift from snow towards rain leads to a decrease in streamflow

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 583-586

  Berghuijs, W R ^a,b   Woods, R A ^b   Hrachowitz, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SNOW; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903477265     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2246     Document Type: Article

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