Impacts of climate change scenarios on dissolved oxygen in the river thames, uk

Hydrology Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 138-152

  Cox, B A ^a   Whitehead, P G ^b  

^a Atkins Limited   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dissolved oxygen; Model. river thames; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; POTABLE WATER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RIVERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; DISPOSAL ROUTES; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; LOWLAND RIVERS; RIVER TEMPERATURE; RIVER THAMES; TREATED WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY MODELING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DRINKING WATER; DROUGHT; PROBABILITY; RIVER WATER; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67649805360     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2009.096     Document Type: Article

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