Climate change impacts on snow water availability in the euphrates-tigris basin

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2789-2803

  Ozdogan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; CIRCULATION SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COMBINED EFFECT; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDRO-POWER GENERATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; MACRO SCALE; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIME-PERIODS; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONFLICT;

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; SNOW; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EUPHRATES BASIN; TIGRIS BASIN;

EID: 80052621008     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-2789-2011     Document Type: Article

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