Developing daily precipitation scenarios for climate change impact studies in the Guadiana and the Tejo basins

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1161-1173

  Xu, Hong ^a   Corte Real, João ^b   Qian, Budong ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Climate scenarios; Downscaling; Iberian Peninsula; Impact study; Multisite stochastic weather generator; Precipitation; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GUADIANA BASIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS BASIN;

EID: 34248157298     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-11-1161-2007     Document Type: Article

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