Bringing Future Climatic Change into Water Resources Management Practice Today

Water Resources Management

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 2933-2950

  Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Complexity; Intensity duration frequency curves; Uncertainty; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; CLIMATE MODELS; IRRIGATION; WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COMPLEXITY; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; IRRIGATION WATER USE; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER INFRASTRUCTURE; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPLEXITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA;

EID: 85019603845     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-017-1704-8     Document Type: Article

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