Perspectives on climate change, mountain hydrology, and water resources in the Oregon Cascades, USA

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Nolin, Anne W ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agent based modeling; climate change; ecohydrology; Mountain hydrology; snow; socialecological system; USA; vulnerability; water scarcity; watershed classification

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; ECOHYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PERCEPTION; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; UPLAND REGION; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857354363     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-11-00038.S1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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