The influence of large dams on surrounding climate and precipitation patterns

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Degu, Ahmed Mohamed ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^b   Pielke, Roger ^c   Shepherd, J Marshall ^d   Voisin, Nathalie ^e   Chronis, Themis ^f  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ARID CLIMATES; ARTIFICIAL RESERVOIRS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; FORCINGS; HUMID CLIMATES; LARGE DAMS; LOCAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION FORMATION; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REANALYSIS; RIVER BASINS; SEMI-ARID CLIMATE; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE EVAPORATION;

DAMS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAM; EVAPORATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; SEMIARID REGION; SHORELINE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952155039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046482     Document Type: Article

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