Climate simulations of major estuarine watersheds in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US

Climatic Change

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 139-168

  Najjar, R ^a   Patterson, L ^a   Graham, S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE]; CHESAPEAKE; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DELAWARE BAY; EMISSION SCENARIO; ESTUARINE ECOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HUDSON RIVER; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RESEARCH NEEDS; SEASONALITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPERATURE PROJECTION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

ESTUARIES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LANDFORMS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); WATERSHEDS;

SIMULATORS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATERSHED;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; DELAWARE BAY; HUDSON ESTUARY; MID-ATLANTIC STATES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65649149251     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9521-y     Document Type: Article

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