Climate change and water resources in the Bagmati River Basin, Nepal

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 639-654

  Babel, Mukand S ^a   Bhusal, Shyam P ^b   Wahid, Shahriar M ^c   Agarwal, Anshul ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b Hydroconsult Pvt Ltd   (Nepal)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; HADLEY CELL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONSOON; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WINTER;

BAGMATI BASIN; NEPAL;

EID: 84894981034     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0910-4     Document Type: Article

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