Climate Change Impacts in the Elbow River Watershed

Canadian Water Resources Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-302

  Valeo, C ^a   Xiang, Z ^b   Bouchart, F J C ^b   Yeung, P ^c   Ryan, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b The City of Calgary   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; FORECASTING; RIVERS;

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE; FLOOD FORECASTING; WATERSHED MODEL;

WATERSHEDS;

EID: 38749109269     PISSN: 07011784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4296/cwrj3204285     Document Type: Article

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