Hydrologic response to scenarios of climate change in sub watersheds of the Okanagan basin, British Columbia

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 326, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 79-108

  Merritt, Wendy S ^a   Alila, Younes ^a   Barton, Mark ^b   Taylor, Bill ^b   Cohen, Stewart ^a,c   Neilsen, Denise ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Adaptation and Impacts Research Group   (Canada)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global climate models; Hydrologic simulation; Okanagan Basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN;

FLOW VOLUMES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; OKANAGAN BASIN;

WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; OKANAGAN BASIN;

EID: 33746903114     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.10.025     Document Type: Article

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