Projecting climate change impacts on stream flow regimes with tracer-aided runoff models - preliminary assessment of heterogeneity at the mesoscale

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 545-558

  Capell, R ^a,b   Tetzlaff, D ^a,b   Essery, R ^a,b   Soulsby, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Model structure; Rainfall runoff modelling; Uplands

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR; UPLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; LANDFORMS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RUNOFF; SNOW; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; UPLAND REGION;

EID: 84891740396     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9612     Document Type: Article

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