A global assessment of the impact of climate change on water scarcity

Climatic Change

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 371-385

  Gosling, Simon N ^a   Arnell, Nigel W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

A1B SCENARIOS; CHANGE PATTERNS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SRES SCENARIO; WATER SCARCITY; WATER STRESS INDICES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84959237433     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0853-x     Document Type: Article

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