Climate changes of hydrometeorological and hydrological extremes in the Paute basin, Ecuadorean Andes

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 631-648

  Mora, D E ^a,b   Campozano, L ^b,d   Cisneros, F ^b   Wyseure, G ^a   Willems, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT RUNOFFS; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES; IPCC SRES SCENARIOS; PERTURBATION APPROACH; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL EXTREMES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PEAK FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

ANDES; ECUADOR; PAUTE BASIN;

EID: 84896824074     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-631-2014     Document Type: Article

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