Basin Hydrologic Response to Changes in Climate and Land Use: The Conestoga River Basin, Pennsylvania

Physical Geography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 222-247

  Chang, Heejun ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; GIS; Hydroclimatology; Streamflow; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE BASIN; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAND USE CHANGE; STREAMFLOW; URBANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0442328422     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.24.3.222     Document Type: Article

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