Uncertainty in the impacts of projected climate change on the hydrology of a subarctic environment: Liard River Basin

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1483-1492

  Thorne, R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA-ICE; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; CLIMATE PROJECTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; HIGH LATITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTERANNUAL; MEAN AIR TEMPERATURES; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; REGIONAL WATER RESOURCES; RIVER BASINS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPRING DISCHARGES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; ICE COVER; LATITUDE; MAGNITUDE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; SUBARCTIC REGION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; LIARD RIVER;

EID: 79956067136     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1483-2011     Document Type: Article

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