The effect of climate change on floods in British Columbia

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-256

  Loukas, Athanasios ^a   Quick, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RESPONSE ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 0033367785     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.1999.0013     Document Type: Article

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