Short-term stream water temperature observations permit rapid assessment of potential climate change impacts

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2196-2211

  Caldwell, Peter ^a   Segura, Catalina ^b,c   Gull Laird, Shelby ^d   Sun, Ge ^a   Mcnulty, Steven G ^a   Sandercock, Maria ^e   Boggs, Johnny ^a   Vose, James M ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aquatic ecology; Climate variability change; Modelling; Stream temperature; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ECOLOGY; LARGE DATASET; MANAGERS; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; TANTALUM; WATER QUALITY;

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ECOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY/CHANGE; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; STREAM TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOREGION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; STREAMWATER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84927629848     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10358     Document Type: Article

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