Evaluation of very high-resolution climate model data for simulating flood hazards in the Upper Danube Basin

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 347, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 319-331

  Dankers, Rutger ^a   Christensen, Ole Bøssing ^b   Feyen, Luc ^a   Kalas, Milan ^a   de Roo, Ad ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Danube; Floods; Precipitation; Regional climate models

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DANUBE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE;

ALPS; DANUBE BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 36249032018     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.055     Document Type: Article

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