Assessment of the impact of potential climate change on the water balance of a semi-arid watershed

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2051-2068

  Abdulla, Fayez ^a   Eshtawi, Tamer ^a   Assaf, Hamed ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Climate change; HSPF; Hydrology; Jordan; Modeling; Semi arid; Water management; Water scarcity; Watershed; Zarqa

Indexed keywords

HSPF; JORDAN; MODELING; SEMI-ARID; WATER SCARCITY; ZARQA;

CALIBRATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SEMIARID REGION; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

AMMAN; ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; JORDAN RIVER; JORDAN VALLEY; KING TALAL DAM; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 67650351148     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9369-y     Document Type: Article

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