Climate change finger prints in mountainous upper Euphrates basin

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-21

  Yilmaz, Abdullah Gokhan ^a   Imteaz, Monzur Alam ^a   Gato Trinidad, Shirley ^a   Hossain, Iqbal ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Precipitation; Snow hydrology; Trend analysis and upper euphrates basin

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE VARIABLES; EUPHRATES; FINGER PRINT; FLOW DATA; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCE; ICE MELTING; NON-PARAMETRIC; PRECIPITATION; QUALITY OF WATER; SEA LEVEL RISE; SNOW COVERAGE; SNOW HYDROLOGY; SNOW MELT; SPEARMAN'S RHO; TREND ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS AND UPPER EUPHRATES BASIN;

GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SNOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 79953009470     PISSN: 2010376X     EISSN: 20103778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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