Simulating low-probability peak discharges for the Rhine basin using resampled climate modeling data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Te Linde, A H ^a,b   Aerts, J C J H ^a   Bakker, A M R ^c   Kwadijk, J C J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING METHODS; EXTREME FLOOD; FLOOD PEAK; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL SIMULATION; PEAK DISCHARGE; PROBLEM AREAS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RHINE BASIN; SNOWMELT; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; WEATHER GENERATOR; WINTER PRECIPITATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM);

CLIMATE MODELS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PEAK DISCHARGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

RHINE BASIN;

EID: 77949617652     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007707     Document Type: Article

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