Climate change impacts on spatial patterns in drought risk in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, USA

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 355-371

  Jung, Il Won ^a   Chang, Heejun ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER DEMAND;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE BASIN;

EID: 84860445054     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0531-8     Document Type: Article

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