Modeling the projected changes of river flow in Central Vietnam under different climate change scenarios

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3579-3598

  Le, Tuan B ^a   Sharif, Hatim O ^a  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Precipitation Highly Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of water resources (APHRODITE); Climate change; Flood control; Global Climate Models (GCMs); Huong River; Hydrologic modeling; Long Ashton Research Station Weather Generator(LARS WG); Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLIMATE MODELS; DATA INTEGRATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RIVERS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; SURFACE WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WIND;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; WEATHER GENERATOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVER FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOFTWARE; SURFACE WATER; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM;

VIET NAM;

EID: 84940417349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7073579     Document Type: Article

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