Modelling the impact of prescribed global warming on runoff from headwater catchments of the Irrawaddy River and their implications for the water level regime of Loktak Lake, northeast India

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1745-1765

  Singh, C R ^a   Thompson, J R ^a   French, J R ^a   Kingston, D G ^a,b   MacKay, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; DOMESTIC USE; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; HYDRO-POWER GENERATION; LAKE WATER LEVEL; MIKE SHE; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; SUB-CATCHMENT; SUBCATCHMENTS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WATER BALANCE MODELS; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

CLIMATE MODELS; DAMS; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; LAKES; RIVERS; RUNOFF; STABILITY; STREAM FLOW; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WETLANDS;

CATCHMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; POWER GENERATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND; BARRAGE; CATCHMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INDIA; IRRAWADDY RIVER; LOKTAK LAKE; MANIPUR; MYANMAR;

EID: 77956568983     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-1745-2010     Document Type: Article

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