Climate Adaptation Informatics: Water Stress on Power Production

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 53-60

  Ganguly, Auroop R ^a   Kumar, Devashish ^a   Ganguli, Poulomi ^a   Short, Geoffrey ^b   Klausner, James ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^c Advanced Research Project Agency Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

case studies in industry; Earth and atmospheric sciences; planning; risk management; Scientific computing; simulation; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PLANNING; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CASE-STUDIES; DEEP UNCERTAINTIES; EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; INFORMED DECISION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NON-STATIONARITIES; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84946750537     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2015.106     Document Type: Article

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