Impact of climate change on Pacific Northwest hydropower

Climatic Change

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 451-469

  Markoff, Matthew S ^a   Cullen, Alison C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCES; GREENHOUSE GASES; POWER GENERATION;

COST OF ELECTRICITY; HYDROPOWER SYSTEM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 41049103480     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9306-8     Document Type: Article

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