The changing geography of the U.S. water budget: Twentieth-century patterns and twenty-first-century projections

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 740-754

  Cowell, C Mark ^a   Urban, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; United States; Water budget

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL PATTERN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER BUDGET;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956743003     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.497117     Document Type: Article

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