Impacts of Climate Change on Extreme Precipitation Events Over Flamingo Tropicana Watershed

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 359-370

  Acharya, Anil ^a   Lamb, Kenneth ^b   Piechota, Thomas C ^c  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Event based; Global Climate Models; HEC HMS; Streamflow; Urban watershed

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; EVENT-BASED; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HEC-HMS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; URBAN WATERSHED;

ABSTRACTING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; STORMS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATABASE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD CONTROL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RETURN PERIOD; STORM; STREAMFLOW; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

LAS VEGAS; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

TROPICANA;

EID: 84875808425     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12020     Document Type: Article

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