Impact of climate change on diffuse pollutant fluxes at the watershed scale

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1962-1972

  Ahmadi, Mehdi ^a   Records, Rosemary ^a   Arabi, Mazdak ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrology; Modelling; Nutrients; SWAT; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; SWAT; WATER QUALITY RESPONSE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HERBICIDES; HYDROLOGY; MODELS; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER POLLUTION;

ATRAZINE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIFFUSION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; STREAMFLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892439828     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9723     Document Type: Article

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