The use of statistical weather generator, hybrid data driven and system dynamics models for water resources management under climate change

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-35

  Rahmani, M A ^a   Zarghami, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid data driven models; Impact of climate change; Reservoir operation; System dynamics; Urmia Lake

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; RESERVOIR; RUNOFF; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA; ZOLACHAY;

EID: 84961288391     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.201400285     Document Type: Article

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