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Quantifying the effect of land use land cover change on increasing discharge in the Upper Mississippi River

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2009

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Schilling, Keith E., Chan, Kung-Sik, Liu, Hai, and Zhang, You-Kuan, 2009, Quantifying the effect of land use land cover change on increasing discharge in the Upper Mississippi River: Journal of Hydrology, v. 387, no. 3–4, p. 343-345.

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Summary There is convincing evidence that land use/land cover (LULC) change has contributed to increasing discharge in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) but key details remain unresolved. In this study, we extend our previous work (Zhang and Schilling, 2006) to quantify how much of the increasing discharge was due to LULC change. We examined daily streamflow for the 1890–2003 period from the US Geological Survey stream gage at Keokuk, Iowa and compiled county agricultural statistics for soybean production in the watershed above the gage to quantify how much of the change in the relation of discharge to precipitation was due to increased soybean cultivation. By allowing the slope of the discharge–precipitation relationship to [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • Northeast CASC

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.019
ISSN http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 0022-1694

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