On climate variability and climate change and impact on water resources

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3553-3559

  Chiew, Francis H S ^a   Prosser, Ian P ^a   Post, David A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Climate change adaptation; Climate variability; Water resources

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; AUSTRALIA; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLOOD RISKS; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; NUTRIENT DELIVERY; POLICY MAKERS; POTENTIAL CHANGE; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RIVER FLOW; SEWER OVERFLOWS; SIMPLE RULES; STORM WATER RUNOFF; SUPPLY AND DEMAND; URBAN AREAS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DELIVERY; WATER MANAGERS; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WET AND DRY;

AGRICULTURE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHT; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOOD CONTROL; FORECASTING; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; URBAN PLANNING; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84858806299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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