Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 7334-7338

  Barnett, Tim P ^a,b   Pierce, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming; Hydrology; Sustainability water resources

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; CLIMATE; ECONOMICS; RIVER;

CLIMATE; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 66149136871     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812762106     Document Type: Article

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