A national-scale assessment of long-term water budget closures for Canada’s watersheds

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 8712-8725

  Wang, Shusen ^a   McKenney, Daniel W ^b   Shang, Jiali ^c   Li, Junhua ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA;

EID: 84917725639     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021951     Document Type: Article

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