An inverse-modelling approach to assess the impacts of climate change in the Seyhan River basin, Turkey

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1121-1136

  Fujihara, Yoichi ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^b   Topaloǧlu, Fatih ^c   Tanaka, Kenji ^d   Watanabe, Tsugihiro ^a  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Flood; Hydrological model; Turkey; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FLOODS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; RIVERS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTIES; DOWNSCALING; END USERS; FLOOD EVENTS; FUTURE CLIMATES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INVERSE APPROACHES; LOCAL FAILURES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR ALGORITHMS; RETURN PERIODS; RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOP DOWNS; TURKEY; WEATHER GENERATOR; WEATHER GENERATORS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INVERSE ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; SEYHAN BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 57049171390     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.53.6.1121     Document Type: Article

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