The response of Lake Tahoe to climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-95

  Sahoo, G B ^a,b   Schladow, S G ^a,b   Reuter, J E ^a   Coats, R ^a   Dettinger, M ^c   Riverson, J ^d   Wolfe, B ^e   Costa Cabral, M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^e NORTHWEST HYDRAULIC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^f Hydrology Futures LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; MIXING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; WATER LEVELS; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIUM NITROGEN; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGENS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IMPORTANT FEATURES; QUALITY PLANNING; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL WARMING; INORGANIC NITROGEN; LIMNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER QUALITY;

LAKE TAHOE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871280156     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0600-8     Document Type: Article

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