Uncertainty in water resources: introduction to the special column

doi:10.1007/s11707-018-0737-5

Front. Earth Sci.

2018, Vol. 12

Issue (4) : 649-652 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-018-0737-5

EDITORIAL

Uncertainty in water resources: introduction to the special column

S.R. FASSNACHT^1,^2,³(

), R.W. WEBB^4,⁵, M. MA⁶

¹. ESS-Watershed Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1476, USA
². Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375, USA
³. Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, USA
⁴. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA
⁵. now with Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
⁶. Research Base of Karst Eco-environments at Nanchuan in Chongqing, Ministry of Nature Resources, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

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