Comparison of the Spatiotemporal Variability of Temperature, Precipitation, and Maximum Daily Spring Flows in Two Watersheds in Quebec Characterized by Different Land Use

Table 4

Correlation coefficients calculated between climate variables and characteristics (magnitude and timing) of maximum spring flows (1932–2008).

Climate variables	L’Assomption River watershed		Matawin River watershed
	Magnitude	Timing	Magnitude	Timing
Maxf	−0.1603	0.1225	−0.1119	0.0077
Maxw	0.0702	−0.3564	0.0038	−0.2805
Maxs	−0.0335	−0.5143	−0.0418	−0.4481
minf	−0.1808	0.0581	−0.0993	0.0234
minw	0.0195	−0.3387	−0.0212	−0.2436
mins	0.0884	−0.4575	0.0921	−0.5050
TSF	0.2439	0.1913	0.4150	0.1859
STR	0.2368	−0.0404	0.3019	0.0038
TP	0.3002	−0.0021	0.5008	−0.0103

Statistically significant coefficient of correlation values at the 5% level are shown in bold.