Assessment of wildland fire impacts on watershed annual water yield: Analytical framework and case studies in the United States

Ecohydrology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Hallema, Dennis W ^a,b   Sun, Ge ^a   Caldwell, Peter V ^a   Norman, Steven P ^a   Cohen, Erika C ^a   Liu, Yongqiang ^a   Ward, Eric J ^c   McNulty, Steven G ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

change point analysis; climate change; climate elasticity; hydrologic disturbance; prescribed burning; United States; wildfire

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FIRES; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CHANGE-POINT ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGIC DISTURBANCE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; UNITED STATES; WILDFIRE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISTURBANCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006272099     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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