Climate change impacts on jordan river flow: Downscaling application from a regional climate model

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 860-879

  Samuels, Rana ^a   Rimmer, Alon ^b   Hartmann, Andreas ^c   Krichak, Simon ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Hydrology; Regional models; Rivers

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

JORDAN RIVER;

EID: 77958548493     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1177.1     Document Type: Article

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