Evaluating the impact of alternative hydro-climate scenarios on transfer agreements: Practical improvement for generating synthetic streamflows

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 396-406

  Kirsch, Brian R ^a   Characklis, Gregory W ^b   Zeff, Harrison B ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Stochastic modeling; Synthetic hydrology.; Systems analysis; Transfers

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION STRUCTURE; FRACTIONAL GAUSSIAN NOISE; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; STOCHASTIC TIME SERIES; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; TRANSFER ACTIVITIES; TRANSFER AGREEMENT; TRANSFERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; RISK PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STREAM FLOW; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INFLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881263671     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000287     Document Type: Article

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