Dealing with uncertainty in water scarcity footprints

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Scherer, Laura ^a   Pfister, Stephan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

global change; impact assessment; Monte Carlo simulation; multi model ensemble; water scarcity

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WATER RESOURCES;

GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL POPULATION; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MODEL ENSEMBLES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER SCARCITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOTPRINT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84975501918     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054008     Document Type: Article

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