El Niño Southern Oscillation and climate trends impact reservoir water quality

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2857-2865

  Marcé, Rafael ^a,b   Rodríguez Arias, Miquel Àngel ^c   García, Juan Carlos ^d   Armengol, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Laboratory for Communication Education and Dissemination of Research   (Spain)

^d Aigües Ter Llobregat ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Anoxic Factor; Climate change impacts; ENSO; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; ORGANIC CARBON; STREAMFLOW; WATER QUALITY;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SAU RESERVOIR; SPAIN;

EID: 77956239565     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02163.x     Document Type: Article

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