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Independent effects of temperature and precipitation on modeled runoff in the conterminous United States
- Uses a water-balance model to simulate the time series of water-year runoff for 4 km × 4 km grid cells for the conterminous United States during the 1900–2008 period
- Uses model outputs to examine the separate effects of precipitation and temperature on runoff variability
- Finds that overall, water-year runoff has increased in the conterminous United States and precipitation has accounted for almost all of the variability in water-year runoff during the past century
- Finds, in contrast, that temperature effects on runoff have been small for most locations in the United States even during periods when temperatures for most of the United States increased significantly
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