Future discharge drought across climate regions around the world modelled with a synthetic hydrological modelling approach forced by three general circulation models

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 487-504

  Wanders, N ^a   Van Lanen, H A J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATIC REGION; DROUGHT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 84924356972     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-487-2015     Document Type: Article

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