Can a paleodrought record be used to reconstruct streamflow?: A case study for the Missouri River Basin

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5195-5212

  Ho, Michelle ^a   Lall, Upmanu ^a,b   Cook, Edward R ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

paleoclimate; regularized canonical correlation analysis; streamflow reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; REPAIR; RIVERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATERSHEDS;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; PALEOCLIMATES; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; RADIUS OF INFLUENCES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

STREAM FLOW;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; PERSISTENCE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; TREE RING;

MISSOURI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978144221     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR018444     Document Type: Article

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