Climate and land cover effects on the temperature of Puget Sound streams

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 2286-2304

  Cao, Qian ^a   Sun, Ning ^b,c   Yearsley, John ^b   Nijssen, Bart ^b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; land use change; riparian shading; stream temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LAND USE; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION;

LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODELING CONSTRUCT; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RIPARIAN SHADING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STREAM TEMPERATURE MODELS; STREAM TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84959933002     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10784     Document Type: Article

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