Climate change impacts on the hydrology of a snowmelt driven basin in semiarid Chile

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 469-488

  Vicuña, Sebastian ^a   Garreaud, René D ^b   McPhee, James ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; CENTRAL CHILE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DIRECT IMPACT; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE; RIVER BASINS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; WATER LOSS;

CLIMATE MODELS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATERSHED;

CHILE;

EID: 79952767316     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9888-4     Document Type: Article

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