Identifying spatial clustering in change points of streamflow across the contiguous U.S. between 1945 and 2009
| Autor: | Timothy J. Ivancic, Stephen B. Shaw |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0208 environmental biotechnology
Climate change 02 engineering and technology Spatial distribution 020801 environmental engineering Geophysics Streamflow Climatology Geological survey Change points General Earth and Planetary Sciences sense organs Precipitation skin and connective tissue diseases Cluster analysis Geology Change detection |
| Zdroj: | Geophysical Research Letters. 44:2445-2453 |
| ISSN: | 1944-8007 0094-8276 |
| Popis: | Much of the work investigating sudden changes in streamflow in the U.S. has used only a small subset of all available gage data and has identified only a single change point in each gage's period of record. In this paper, we apply a change point detection and clustering algorithm that uses all U.S. Geological Survey flow gages with near-continuous records, detects multiple change points in annual streamflow, and groups change points into geographic clusters which are not predefined by any political or hydrologic boundaries. We identify 17 spatially distinct change point clusters, 13 of which are related to concurrent changes in precipitation. Several geographic regions display multiple clusters, indicating multiple change points in time. The presence of abrupt changes in streamflow suggests that natural variability in the climate signal may be dominating observed streamflow variations in the last 60 years in many locations in the contiguous U.S. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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