Assessment of climate change impacts on hydrology and water quality with a watershed modeling approach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 450-451, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-82

  Luo, Yuzhou ^a   Ficklin, Darren L ^b   Liu, Xiaomang ^a,c   Zhang, Minghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrologic simulation; Stream temperature; SWAT; Watershed

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL AVERAGE; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; AQUATIC HABITATS; BASE MODELS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COASTAL RANGE; EMISSION SCENARIO; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HEAD WATERS; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; MODELING RESULTS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SEASONALITY; SIERRA NEVADA; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; STREAM TEMPERATURES; SWAT; TEMPORAL TRENDS; UPDATED MODEL; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER SOURCE AREAS; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED MODELING; WINTER MONTHS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE BASIN; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TREND STUDY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; WINTER;

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874688422     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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