Impacts of 21st-Century Climate Change on Hydrologic Extremes in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1461-1476

  Tohver, Ingrid M ^a   Hamlet, Alan F ^a,b   Lee, Se Yeun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Columbia River basin; Downscaled global climate models; Flood; Hydrologic extremes; Hydrologic models; Low flow

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FLOODS; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS; RIVERS;

COLUMBIA RIVER; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LOW FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84918808836     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12199     Document Type: Article

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