Using variograms to detect and attribute hydrological change

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2395-2408

  Chiverton, A ^a,b,c   Hannaford, J ^a   Holman, I P ^b   Corstanje, R ^b   Prudhomme, C ^a   Hess, T M ^b   Bloomfield, J P ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; OPTICAL TESTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RIVERS; TIME SERIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; RIVER FLOW TIME SERIES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; VARIOGRAM PROPERTIES;

STREAM FLOW;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER FLOW; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TIME SERIES; VARIOGRAM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84930224953     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-2395-2015     Document Type: Article

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