Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use changes in a mountain watershed: Uncertainty estimation based on model comparison

Ecohydrology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1396-1416

  Morán Tejeda, Enrique ^a,b   Zabalza, Javier ^b   Rahman, Kazi ^c   Gago Silva, Ana ^a   López Moreno, J Ignacio ^b   Vicente Serrano, Sergio ^b   Lehmann, Anthony ^a   Tague, Christina L ^d   Beniston, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evapotranspiration; Land use change; Mediterranean mountain; RHESSys; Snowmelt; Streamflow; SWAT

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND USE; RAIN; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

LAND-USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN MOUNTAINS; RHESSYS; SNOWMELT; SWAT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84955640385     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1590     Document Type: Article

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