Changes in hydrology and streamflow as predicted by a modelling experiment forced with climate models

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2772-2781

  Jha, Manoj K ^a   Gassman, Philip W ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; GCM; Hydrological response; SWAT

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GCM; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; METEOROLOGICAL INPUT; SWAT; WATERSHED ASSESSMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

WATERSHEDS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

IOWA; RACCOON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

PROCYON;

EID: 84893724243     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9836     Document Type: Article

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