A comparison of statistical downscaling and climate change factor methods: Impacts on low flows in the River Thames, United Kingdom

Climatic Change

Volumn 69, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 245-268

  Diaz Nieto, Jacqueline ^a   Wilby, Robert L ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; TEMPORAL STRUCTURING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVER FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18744391157     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-1157-6     Document Type: Article

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