Projected 21st century trends in hydroclimatology of the Tahoe basin

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-69

  Coats, Robert ^a   Costa Cabral, Mariza ^b   Riverson, John ^c   Reuter, John ^a   Sahoo, Goloka ^a   Schladow, Geoffrey ^a   Wolfe, Brent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hydrology Futures   (United States)

^c TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^d NORTHWEST HYDRAULIC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FLOODS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOIL MOISTURE; WATER RESOURCES;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; HYDRO CLIMATOLOGIES; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PARALLEL CLIMATE MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; EMISSION; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFRASTRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SNOWPACK; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

LAKE TAHOE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871325486     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0425-5     Document Type: Article

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