Sensitivity of irrigation water balance to climate change in the great plains of Colorado

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1315-1322

  Elgaali, ^a   Garcia, Luis A ^a   Ojima, Dennis S ^a,b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Climate change; Climate models; Irrigation water balance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; IRRIGATION WATER BALANCE;

IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RIVER BASIN; WATER BUDGET; WATER DEMAND; WATER SUPPLY;

IRRIGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARKANSAS RIVER; COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845654354     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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