Simulating impacts of climate change on river discharges in the Nile basin

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 696-709

  Booij, Martijn J ^a   Tollenaar, Daniël ^a,b   van Beek, Eelco ^a,b   Kwadijk, Jaap C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; General circulation model; HBV model; Nile River; Water distribution model

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION MODEL; BIAS CORRECTION; BLUE NILE; CHANGING CLIMATE; DISCRETISATION; EMISSION SCENARIO; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREAT LAKES; HBV MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SRES SCENARIO; SUB-CATCHMENT; SUBCATCHMENTS; WATER DISTRIBUTION MODEL; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAKES; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER DISCHARGE; TRIBUTARY;

LAKE NASSER; NILE RIVER;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 80053126974     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.07.042     Document Type: Article

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