Patterns of spatial and temporal variability in streamflow records in south central Chile in the period 1952-2003

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Rubio Álvarez, Eduardo ^a   McPhee, James ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; OSCILLATING FLOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STREAMFLOW VARIABILITY;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84930188544     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007982     Document Type: Article

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