Impacts of climate change and socio-economic scenarios on flow and water quality of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) river systems: Low flow and flood statistics

Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1057-1069

  Whitehead, P G ^a   Barbour, E ^a   Futter, M N ^d   Sarkar, S ^b   Rodda, H ^g   Caesar, J ^e   Butterfield, D ^a   Jin, L ^c   Sinha, R ^b   Nicholls, R ^f   Salehin, M ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g Water Resource Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^h BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; MANGROVE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDIA; RIVER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; FLOODS; INDIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84931049470     PISSN: 20507887     EISSN: 20507895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4em00619d     Document Type: Article

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