Toward understanding nonstationarity in climate and hydrology through tree ring proxy records

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1813-1830

  Razavi, Saman ^a,b,c   Elshorbagy, Amin ^a,b   Wheater, Howard ^a,b,c   Sauchyn, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c University of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; nonstationarities; paleo hydrology; Saskatchewan River Basin

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; SURFACE WATERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

AUTOCORRELATION STRUCTURES; DEPENDENCE STRUCTURES; NON-STATIONARITIES; PALEO-HYDROLOGY; RIVER BASINS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AUTOCORRELATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE WATER; TREE RING;

CLIMATES; RIVERS; WATER RESOURCES;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN DELTA;

EID: 85027941926     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015696     Document Type: Article

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