Potential impact of climate change on the water availability of South Saskatchewan River Basin

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 355-386

  Tanzeeba, Shoma ^a   Gan, Thian Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; ANNUAL MAXIMUM FLOW; ANNUAL MEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EVAPORATION LOSS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL DATA; HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS; INTERACTIONS SOIL BIOSPHERE ATMOSPHERES; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; MODEL RESULTS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REANALYSIS; RIVER BASINS; SASKATCHEWAN; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOIL PARAMETERS; SRES SCENARIO; SUBBASINS; TIME-PERIODS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EVAPORATION; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOIL PROFILE; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALBERTA; BOW BASIN; CANADA; OLDMAN BASIN; RED DEER BASIN; SOUTH SASKATCHEWAN BASIN;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 84859215873     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0221-7     Document Type: Article

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