Climate change impacts and greenhouse gas mitigation effects on U.S. water quality

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1326-1338

  Boehlert, Brent ^a,b   Strzepek, Kenneth M ^b   Chapra, Steven C ^c   Fant, Charles ^b   Gebretsadik, Yohannes ^b   Lickley, Megan ^b   Swanson, Richard ^d   McCluskey, Alyssa ^d   Neumann, James E ^a   Martinich, Jeremy ^e  

^a Industrial Economics Incorporated   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; economic impacts; greenhouse gases; mitigation; water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; RIVERS; WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER TREATMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DISSOLVED OXYGEN LEVELS; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION; MITIGATION; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY INDICATORS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMISSION CONTROL; FRESHWATER; GREENHOUSE GAS; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945441982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000400     Document Type: Article

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