High resolution climate change scenarios: Implications for British runoff

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2877-2895

  Pilling, C ^a   Jones, J A A ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Climate change; Effective runoff; Potential evapotranspiration; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; PENMAN VARIABLES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033572368     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(19991215)13:17<2877::AID-HYP904>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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