Assessing the impacts of climatic change on mountain water resources

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 493, Issue , 2014, Pages 1129-1137

  Beniston, Martin ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cryosphere; Hydropower; Mountains; Water: Agriculture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CRYOSPHERE; HYDROPOWER; MOUNTAINS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

SNOW;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HAZARD; MOUNTAIN; PERMAFROST; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREAM (RIVER); WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ICE COVER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ICE COVER; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84904757677     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.122     Document Type: Article

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