Modeling the transport of nutrients and sediment loads into Lake Tahoe under projected climatic changes

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-50

  Riverson, John ^a   Coats, Robert ^b   Costa Cabral, Mariza ^c   Dettinger, Michael ^d   Reuter, John ^e   Sahoo, Goloka ^e   Schladow, Geoffrey ^e  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^b Hydroikos Ltd   (United States)

^c Hydrology Futures LLC   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; LAND USE; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SNOWPACK ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL EVALUATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BASEFLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOACCUMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MEADOW; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; WATER QUALITY;

LAKE TAHOE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871346121     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0629-8     Document Type: Article

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