Future freshwater stress for island populations

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 720-725

  Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^a   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^b   Anchukaitis, Kevin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPORATION; EXTREME EVENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84975867910     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2987     Document Type: Article

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