Modelling climate change impacts in the Peace and Athabasca catchment and delta: I - Hydrological model application

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4197-4214

  Toth, Brenda ^a   Pietroniro, Alain ^a   Conly, F Malcolm ^a   Kouwen, Nicholas ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Flow regulation; Hydraulic model; Hydrologic modelling; Hydrology; Model forcing; Peace Athabasca Delta

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CONTROL; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EVAPORATIVE FLUX; MODEL FORCING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CONTROL; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOW REGULATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW;

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

EID: 33645466995     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6426     Document Type: Article

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