Annual precipitation regulates spatial and temporal drivers of lake water clarity:

Ecological Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 632-643

  Rose, Kevin C ^a,c   Greb, Steven R ^b   Diebel, Matthew ^b   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

land use; land water interactions; landscape ecology; precipitation; remote sensing; water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA SET; LAKE WATER; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

RAIN; SNOW;

ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; LAKE; WATER QUALITY; WISCONSIN;

DROUGHTS; LAKES; RAIN; SNOW; WATER QUALITY; WISCONSIN;

EID: 85014527353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1471     Document Type: Article

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