Projections of the shifting envelope of Water cycle variability

Climatic Change

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 587-600

  Dirmeyer, P A ^a   Yu, L ^a   Amini, S ^a   Crowell, A D ^a   Elders, A ^a   Wu, J ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRIERS (MATERIALS); MOISTURE; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

AVERAGE VALUES; CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HISTORICAL RANGE OF VARIABILITY; MODELING VARIABILITY; NORTHERN LATITUDES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; WINTER CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84960103106     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1634-0     Document Type: Article

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