Climate change and its effect on agriculture, water resources and human health sectors in Poland

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1725-1737

  Szwed, M ^a   Karg, G ^a   Pinskwar I ^a   Radziejewski, M ^a,b   Graczyk, D ^a   Kedziora A ^a   Kundzewicz, Z W ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENVIRONMENT   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EUROPEAN UNION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAINFALL; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STORAGE; WATER SUPPLY;

POLAND;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77955929345     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-1725-2010     Document Type: Article

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