Water resource impacts of climate change in southwestern Bulgaria

GeoJournal

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 159-168

  Chang, Heejun ^a   Knight, C Gregory ^b   Staneva, Marieta P ^b,c   Kostov, Deyan ^d  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Independent Scholar   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Climate change; GIS; Runoff; Spatial and temporal variability

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOW; WATER RESOURCES;

MOUNTAINS; PEAK FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GIS; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1542476949     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GEJO.0000003611.11187.5c     Document Type: Article

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