Review of scenario selection and downscaling methods for the assessment of climate change impacts on hydrology in the United States pacific northwest

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1611-1621

  Salathé Jr , Eric P ^a   Mote, Philip W ^a   Wiley, Matthew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate impacts; Downscaling; Hydrologic modelling; Regional climate modelling

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL MAPPING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35349026781     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1540     Document Type: Review

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