Is streamflow increasing? Trends in the coterminous United States
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1 Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA 2 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA Received: 12 February 2008 – Accepted: 13 February 2008 – Published: 19 March 2008 Correspondence to: N. Y. Krakauer ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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