Climate elasticity of streamflow revisited - An elasticity index based on long-term hydrometeorological records

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4503-4524

  Andréassian, Vazken ^a   Coron, Laurent ^a,d   Lerat, Julien ^b   Le Moine, Nicolas ^c  

^a Procédés biotechnologiques au service de l'environnement   (France)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d EDF DTG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CO-VARIATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; REFERENCE METHOD; REGRESSION MODEL; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; UNIVARIATE;

ELASTICITY;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; HYDROELASTICITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INDEX METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

FRANCE;

EID: 84995380618     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-4503-2016     Document Type: Article

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