Hydrologic effects of climate change in the Yukon River Basin

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 509-523

  Hay, Lauren E ^a   McCabe, Gregory J ^a  

^a US Geological Survey   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DATA SETS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL SEARCH; HYDROLOGIC EFFECTS; POTENTIAL CHANGE; RIVER BASINS; SHUFFLED COMPLEX EVOLUTION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; WATER BALANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER BUDGET;

YUKON BASIN;

EID: 77953019942     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9805-x     Document Type: Article

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