Coasts, water levels, and climate change: A Great Lakes perspective

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 697-711

  Gronewold, Andrew D ^a   Fortin, Vincent ^b   Lofgren, Brent ^a   Clites, Anne ^a   Stow, Craig A ^a   Quinn, Frank ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CHANGING CLIMATE; COASTAL POPULATION; GLOBAL ECONOMIES; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; SURROUNDING REGIONS; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

LAKES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; FRESHWATER; SURFACE WATER; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84884699827     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0840-2     Document Type: Article

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