Predicting climate change impact on nutrient pollution in waterways: A case study in the upper catchment of the Latrobe River, Australia

Ecohydrology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-82

  Alam, Md Jahangir ^a   Dutta, Dushmanta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change impact; Hydrology; Nutrient pollution; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; IMPACT OF TEMPERATURES; IN-STREAM PROCESS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LATROBE RIVERS; MODELLING TOOLS; NUTRIENT POLLUTION; POLLUTION LEVEL; RESEARCH NEEDS; STREAM WATER QUALITY; STUDY AREAS;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; NUTRIENTS; POLLUTION; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NUTRIENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIVER BASIN; RIVER POLLUTION; STREAMWATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; LATROBE RIVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84874001122     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.282     Document Type: Article

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