Projected climate change impacts on the hydrology and temperature of Pacific Northwest rivers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Huan ^a,b   Kimball, John S ^c,d   Elsner, Marketa M ^e   Mantua, Nate ^e   Adler, Robert F ^a,b   Stanford, Jack ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; MACRO SCALE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; RELATIVE ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; ROUTING MODEL; SOURCE-SINK; STREAM TEMPERATURE CHANGES; STREAM TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE SIMULATIONS; THERMAL DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STREAM FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD WATER; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALMONID; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84870620821     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012082     Document Type: Article

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