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Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1785-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1785-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
Research article
 | 
06 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 06 Sep 2016

Streamflow variability over the 1881–2011 period in northern Québec: comparison of hydrological reconstructions based on tree rings and geopotential height field reanalysis

Pierre Brigode, François Brissette, Antoine Nicault, Luc Perreault, Anna Kuentz, Thibault Mathevet, and Joël Gailhard

Data sets

The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV2c.html) G. P. Compo, J. S. Whitaker, P. D. Sardeshmukh, N. Matsui, R. J. Allan, X. Yin, B. E. Gleason, R. S. Vose, G. Rutledge, P. Bessemoulin, S. Brönnimann, M. Brunet, R. I. Crouthamel, A. N. Grant, P. Y. Groisman, P. D. Jones, M. C. Kruk, A. C. Kruger, G. J. Marshall, M. Maugeri, H. Y. Mok, Ø Nordli, T. F. Ross, R. M. Trigo, X. L. Wang, S. D. Woodruff, and S. J. Worley https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.776

A New Estimate of the Average Earth Surface Land Temperature Spanning 1753 to 2011 (http://berkeleyearth.org/source-files/) R. Rohde, R. A. Muller, R. Jacobsen, E. Muller, S. Perlmutter, A. Rosenfeld, J. Wurtele, D. Groom, and C. Wickham https://doi.org/10.4172/2327-4581.1000101

Hole-filled SRTM for the globe Version 4 A. Jarvis, H. I. Reuter, A. Nelson, and E. Guevara http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp

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In this paper, we apply a new hydro-climatic reconstruction method on the Caniapiscau Reservoir (Canada), compare the obtained streamflow time series against time series derived from dendrohydrology by other authors on the same catchment, and study the natural streamflow variability over the 1881–2011 period. This new reconstruction is based on a historical reanalysis of global geopotential height fields and aims to produce daily streamflow time series (using a rainfall–runoff model).
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