Uncertainty and climate change impact on the flood regime of small UK catchments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-23

  Prudhomme, Christel ^a,b   Jakob, Dörte ^a   Svensson, Cecilia ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Climate change impact; Confidence intervals; Flood frequency; Flood magnitude; Flood regime; GCMs; Natural variability; Resampling; Risk assessment; UK; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY;

FLOOD REGIME;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037853076     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00065-9     Document Type: Review

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