Emergence of new hydrologic regimes of surface water resources in the conterminous United States under future warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Leng, Guoyong ^a   Huang, Maoyi ^a   Voisin, Nathalie ^a   Zhang, Xuesong ^a   Asrar, Ghassem R ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CONUS; global warming; surface water; time of emergence; variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATERS; WATER SUPPLY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; CONUS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; TIME OF EMERGENCE; VARIABILITY; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES;

SURFACE WATER RESOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOWNSCALING; ERROR CORRECTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006058952     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114003     Document Type: Article

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