Assessing water resources adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1427-1443

  Hamlet, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; BUSH ADMINISTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC DATA; COOL SEASON PRECIPITATION; DOWN-SCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; EXTENSIVE RESOURCES; GENERAL PUBLICS; HIGH CAPACITY; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HUMAN SYSTEM; HYDRO POWER PRODUCTION; HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS; LOW FLOW; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; OPERATING RULE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; POLICY MAKERS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; RESOURCES POLICY; SEASONALITY; SHORT TIME SCALE; STATIONARITY; STREAMFLOW TIMINGS; TECHNICAL CAPACITY; TECHNICAL LEVELS; WARM SEASONS; WATER ALLOCATIONS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER POLICIES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS; WATER SYSTEM;

CLIMATE MODELS; FLOOD CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOOD CONTROL; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 81255177731     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1427-2011     Document Type: Article

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