Hydrologic Sensitivities of Colorado River Runoff to Changes in Precipitation and Temperature

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Hydrometeorology

• Publication date

  2012-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/JHM-D-11-069.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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