Modelling climate change impacts in the Peace and Athabasca catchment and delta: III - Integrated model assessment

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4231-4245

  Pietroniro, Alain ^a   Leconte, Robert ^b   Toth, Brenda ^a   Peters, Daniel L ^c   Kouwen, Nicholas ^d   Conly, F Malcolm ^a   Prowse, Terry D ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate shift; Hydrological modelling; Hydrological regimes; Hydrology; Model coupling; ONE D; Peace Athabasca Delta; WATFLOOD

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

DOWNSCALING METHODS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; MODEL COUPLING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE LEVEL; WATER LEVEL;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PEACE-ATHABASCA DELTA;

EID: 33645464575     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6428     Document Type: Article

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