Current drought and future hydroclimate projections in southeast Australia and implications for water resources management

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 601-612

  Chiew, F H S ^a   Young, W J ^a   Cai, W ^a   Teng, J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Planning and management; Rainfall; Runoff; Southeast Australia; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; PROBABILISTIC QUANTIFICATION; RAINFALL; RISK-BASED; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; TIME-SCALES; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING;

AVAILABILITY; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; RUNOFF;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79952992496     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-010-0424-x     Document Type: Article

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