Watershed-scale response to climate change through the twenty-first century for selected basins across the United States

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1-37

  Hay, Lauren E ^a   Markstrom, Steven L ^a   Ward Garrison, Christian ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; General circulation models; Hydrologic modeling; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857023511     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010EI370.1     Document Type: Article

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