Climate change impacts in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin based on different model and scenario simulations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 480, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-161

  Bozkurt, Deniz ^a   Sen, Omer Lutfi ^a,b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrology; Iran; Iraq; Syria; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DAM RESERVOIRS; EMISSION SCENARIO; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROPOWER PLANTS; IRAN; IRAQ; REMARKABLE IMPACT; SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SURFACE RUNOFFS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SYRIA; TEMPORAL SHIFTS; TURKEY; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; RUNOFF;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DAM; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESERVOIR; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPLAND REGION; VULNERABILITY;

EUPHRATES BASIN; IRAN; IRAQ; TIGRIS BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 84872669610     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.021     Document Type: Article

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