Water Resources Impact Assessment Under Climate Change Scenarios in Mediterranean Watersheds

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2377-2391

  Mourato, Sandra ^a,b   Moreira, Madalena ^a   Corte Real, João ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Calibration; Climate change; Hydrological modelling; Mediterranean; SHETRAN; Water availability

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MEDITERRANEAN; SHETRAN; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84939953295     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-0947-5     Document Type: Article

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