Hydrological impact simulations of climate change on Lebanese coastal rivers

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1119-1133

  Hreiche, Antoine ^a   Najem, Wajdi ^a   Bocquillon, Claude ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mediterranean; Simulations; Snow; Streamflow impact

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SNOW; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

COASTAL RIVERS; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACT; STREAMFLOW IMPACT;

RIVERS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER; SNOW; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 37249020062     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.52.6.1119     Document Type: Article

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