Assessment of climate-change impacts on alpine discharge regimes with climate model uncertainty

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2091-2109

  Horton, Pascal ^a   Schaefli, Bettina ^a   Mezghani, Abdelkader ^a   Hingray, Benoît ^a   Musy, André ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate change; Glacier hydrology; Hydrological modelling; Regional climate models; Snowmelt modelling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SNOW;

ALPINE DISCHARGE; CLIMATIC-CHANGE IMPACTS; GLACIER HYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SNOWMELT MODELLING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DISCHARGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDICTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RUNOFF; VALLEY GLACIER;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33745968013     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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