Effects of mid-twenty-first century climate and land cover change on the hydrology of the Puget Sound basin, Washington

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1729-1753

  Cuo, Lan ^a   Beyene, Tazebe K ^b   Voisin, Nathalie ^b   Su, Fengge ^a,b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^b   Alberti, Marina ^c   Richey, Jeffrey E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Hydrologic prediction; Land cover change impacts

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMUM FLOW; ANNUAL RUNOFF; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; FRESHWATER FLUXES; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CHANGE IMPACTS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PUGET SOUND; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SUBBASINS; TRANSITION ZONES; WASHINGTON; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGY; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND COVER; PREDICTION; RUNOFF; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; STREAMFLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79956045318     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7932     Document Type: Article

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