Modelling potential impacts of climate change on water and nitrate export from a mid-sized, semiarid watershed in the US Southwest

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 419-431

  Ye, Lin ^a   Grimm, Nancy B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; SEMI-ARID WATERSHED; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; MINERALOGY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEMIARID REGION; WATERSHED;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881609269     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0827-z     Document Type: Article

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