Assessment of impact of climate change on water resources: A long term analysis of the Great Lakes of North America

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 239-255

  McBean, E ^a   Motiee, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE;

GREAT LAKES BASIN; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; NIAGARA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT CLAIR RIVER; SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER;

EID: 39449085081     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-12-239-2008     Document Type: Article

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