Twenty-first century projections of extreme precipitations in the Plata Basin

International Journal of River Basin Management

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 373-387

  Barros, Vicente R ^a   Garavaglia, Christian R ^a,b   Doyle, Moira E ^a,c  

^a Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^b Ministerio de Defensa Republica Argentina   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Climate change; floods; La Plata Basin; twenty first century

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; LA PLATA BASIN;

EID: 84896699901     PISSN: 15715124     EISSN: 18142060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2013.819358     Document Type: Article

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