Warming spring air temperatures, but delayed spring streamflow in an Arctic headwater basin

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Shi, Xiaogang ^a   Marsh, Philip ^b   Yang, Daqing ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

rainfall; snowfall; snowmelt onset; streamflow; temperature fluctuation; timing; warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RAIN; RUNOFF; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE CHANGES; NON-PARAMETRIC TRENDS; SNOWMELT; SPRING TEMPERATURES; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TIMING; WARMING;

STREAM FLOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HEADWATER; RUNOFF; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; SPRING (SEASON); STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84937484926     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064003     Document Type: Article

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