The impacts of climatic changes for water resources of the Colorado and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Basins

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1429-1441

  Gleick, Peter H ^a   Chalecki, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a Pacific Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Droughts; Floods; Modeling; Water policy; Water resources; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER POLICY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

COLORADO RIVER BASIN; SACRAMENTO RIVER BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033392648     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04227.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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