21st century runoff sensitivities of major global river basins

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Tang, Qiuhong ^a,b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; WATER RESOURCES;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EURASIA; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; NATURAL SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RIVER BASINS; RIVER RUNOFFS; RUNOFF RESPONSE; RUNOFF TEMPERATURE; SEMIARID AREA;

RUNOFF;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LATITUDE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER RESOURCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

NORTH AMERICA; EURASIA;

EID: 84859126793     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050834     Document Type: Article

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