Climate change impacts on us water quality using two models: HAWQS and US basins

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Fant, Charles ^a   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^b   Boehlert, Brent ^a,c   Rennels, Lisa ^a   Chapra, Steven C ^d   Strzepek, Kenneth M ^c   Corona, Joel ^e   Allen, Ashley ^e   Martinich, Jeremy ^e  

^a Industrial Economics Incorporated   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Tufts University   (United States)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Economic valuation; Greenhouse gases; Mitigation; Model comparison; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLIMATE MODELS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITROGEN; REACTION RATES; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTION RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ECONOMIC VALUATION; MITIGATION; MODEL COMPARISON; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY MODELING; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE; MITIGATION; RESERVOIR; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; VALUATION; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85013790063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9020118     Document Type: Article

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