Assessment of Climate Change Impact on the Gharesou River Basin Using SWAT Hydrological Model

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 601-609

  Zahabiyoun, B ^a   Goodarzi, M R ^a   Bavani, A R Massah ^b   Azamathulla, H M ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c RIVER ENGINEERING AND URBAN DRAINAGE RESEARCH CENTRE REDAC   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

HadCM3; Modeling; SWAT; Water resource

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN;

GHARESOU BASIN; IRAN; KARKHEH RIVER; KERMANSHAH; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84878639480     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201100652     Document Type: Article

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