A new methodology for the assessment of climate change impacts on a watershed scale

Current Science

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1047-1055

  Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global circulation models; Impact assessment; Water resources; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953976375     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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