Resilience of river flow regimes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 12925-12930

  Botter, Gianluca ^a   Basso, Stefano ^a,b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flow variability; Hydroclimatic shift; Water uses

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMBEDDING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW VARIABILITY; HYDROCLIMATIC SHIFT; WATER USES;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84881465305     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311920110     Document Type: Article

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