Reservoir management under predictable climate variability and change

Journal of Water and Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 472-485

  Asnaashari, Ahmad ^a   Gharabaghi, Bahram ^b   McBean, Ed ^b   Mahboubi, Ali Akbar ^b  

^a ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrological modeling; Mississippi River; Reservoir management; Water balance

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; WATER BALANCE; WATER BUDGET COMPONENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941642361     PISSN: 20402244     EISSN: 24089354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2015.053     Document Type: Article

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