Impact of climate change on water resources status: A case study for Crete Island, Greece

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 479, Issue , 2013, Pages 146-158

  Koutroulis, Aristeidis G ^a   Tsanis, Ioannis K ^a,b   Daliakopoulos, Ioannis N ^a   Jacob, Daniela ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Crete; Hydrological changes; Water resources

Indexed keywords

A1B SCENARIOS; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; BASIN SCALE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CRETE; EMISSION SCENARIO; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; MANAGEMENT PLANNING; MODEL RESULTS; P REDUCTION; PRESENT VALUE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; ROBUST SIGNALS; STATE OF THE ART; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER SECURITY; WATER STATUS; WATER USE;

WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LOCAL PLANNING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 84872266841     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.055     Document Type: Article

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