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SUBMITTER: Botter G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3740855 | biostudies-other | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Botter Gianluca G Basso Stefano S Rodriguez-Iturbe Ignacio I Rinaldo Andrea A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130722 32
Landscape and climate alterations foreshadow global-scale shifts of river flow regimes. However, a theory that identifies the range of foreseen impacts on streamflows resulting from inhomogeneous forcings and sensitivity gradients across diverse regimes is lacking. Here, we derive a measurable index embedding climate and landscape attributes (the ratio of the mean interarrival of streamflow-producing rainfall events and the mean catchment response time) that discriminates erratic regimes with en ...[more]