Sources of uncertainty in climate change impacts on river discharge and groundwater in a headwater catchment of the Upper Nile Basin, Uganda

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1297-1308

  Kingston, D G ^a,b   Taylor, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

NILE BASIN; UGANDA;

EID: 77954694542     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-1297-2010     Document Type: Article

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