The Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin
@article{Christensen2004TheEO, title={The Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin}, author={Niklas S. Christensen and Andrew W. Wood and Nathalie Voisin and Dennis P. Lettenmaier and Richard N. Palmer}, journal={Climatic Change}, year={2004}, volume={62}, pages={337-363} }
The potential effects of climate change on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River basin are assessed by comparing simulated hydrologic and water resources scenarios derived from downscaled climate simulations of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Center for Atmospheric Research Parallel Climate Model (PCM) to scenarios driven by observed historical (1950–1999) climate. PCM climate scenarios include an ensemble of three 105-year future climate simulations based on projected…
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