Operational testing of a water balance model for predicting climate change impacts

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 98-99, Issue , 1999, Pages 295-304

  Xu, Chong Yu ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; NOPEX; Validation methods; Water balance models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 0033621474     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00106-9     Document Type: Article

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