The influence of multiyear drought on the annual rainfall-runoff relationship: An Australian perspective

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2444-2463

  Saft, Margarita ^a,b   Western, Andrew W ^a   Zhang, Lu ^b   Peel, Murray C ^a   Potter, Nick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; decadal climate variability; hydrologic nonstationarity; millennium drought; rainfall runoff relationship; streamflow

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; RAIN; STREAM FLOW;

AUSTRALIA; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MILLENNIUM DROUGHTS; NON-STATIONARITIES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP;

RUNOFF;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT STRESS; FORESTED CATCHMENT; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85027936817     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015348     Document Type: Article

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