Climate change impacts on high elevation hydropower generation in California's Sierra Nevada: A case study in the Upper American River

Climatic Change

Volumn 87, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2007, Pages

  Vicuna, S ^a   Leonardson, R ^a   Hanemann, M W ^b   Dale, L L ^b   Dracup, J A ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS; HYDRO-POWER GENERATION; HYDROELECTRIC SYSTEMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICTS; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS;

HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84893691858     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9365-x     Document Type: Article

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