Forecasted changes in the climate and the river runoff regime in Latvian river basins

Baltica

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-152

  Latkovska, Inese ^a   Apsite, Elga ^a   Elferts, Didzis ^a   Kurpniece, Liga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forecast scenario; Hydrological model; Latvia; River runoff

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; TREND ANALYSIS;

LATVIA;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84871515411     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5200/baltica.2012.25.14     Document Type: Article

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