Estimates of future flow, including extremes, of the Columbia River headwaters

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Burger G ^a   Schulla, J ^a   Werner, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SCENARIOS; COLUMBIA; COLUMBIA RIVER; DOWN-SCALING; GLACIER RECESSION; HEAD WATERS; HIGH MELTING; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LOW FLOW; NORTH AMERICAN; PEAK FLOWS; PHYSICALLY BASED; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SMALL SCALE; STATIC APPROXIMATIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTURE FLOW; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HEADWATER; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

COLUMBIA RIVER;

EID: 80055044165     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009716     Document Type: Article

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