Fragmented patterns of flood change across the United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 10,232-10,239

  Archfield, S A ^a   Hirsch, R M ^a   Viglione, A ^b   Bloschl G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

climate; floods; trends

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE INDEX; GROUP MEMBERSHIPS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TRENDS; WEAK CORRELATION;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COHESION; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FRAGMENTATION; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84990967326     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070590     Document Type: Article

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