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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Hydrology Année : 2017

Trends in snowmelt-related streamflow timing in the conterminous United States

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Changes in snowmelt-related streamflow timing have implications for water availability and use as well as ecologically relevant shifts in streamflow. Historical trends in snowmelt-related streamflow timing (winter-spring center volume date, WSCVD) were computed for minimally disturbed river basins in the conterminous United States. WSCVD was computed by summing daily streamflow for a seasonal window then calculating the day that half of the seasonal volume had flowed past the gage. We used basins where at least 30 percent of annual precipitation was received as snow, and streamflow data were restricted to regionally based winter-spring periods to focus the analyses on snowmelt-related streamflow. Trends over time in WSCVD at gages in the eastern U.S. were relatively homogenous in magnitude and direction and statistically significant; median WSCVD was earlier by 8.2 days (1.1 days/decade) and 8.6 days (1.6 days/decade) for 1940–2014 and 1960–2014 periods respectively. Fewer trends in the West were significant though most trends indicated earlier WSCVD over time. Trends at low-to-mid elevation (

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hal-02606270 , version 1 (16-05-2020)

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R.W. Dudley, G.A. Hodgkins, M.R. Mchale, M.J. Kolian, Benjamin Renard. Trends in snowmelt-related streamflow timing in the conterminous United States. Journal of Hydrology, 2017, 547, pp.208-221. ⟨10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.051⟩. ⟨hal-02606270⟩

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