Impacts of global climate change in a hydrologically vulnerable region: Challenges to South African hydrologists

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 113-136

  Schulze, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; Hydrological response; Sensitivity; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031437836     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030913339702100107     Document Type: Article

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