Assessment of global aridity change

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 520, Issue , 2015, Pages 300-313

  Asadi Zarch, Mohammad Amin ^a   Sivakumar, Bellie ^a,b   Sharma, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aridity; Climate change; Clustering; Potential evapotranspiration; Precipitation; Trend

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ARIDITY; CLUSTERING; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; TREND; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCES AVAILABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARIDITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMAND ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNESCO; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84916242290     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.033     Document Type: Article

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