Constraining uncertainty in regional hydrologic impacts of climate change: Nonstationarity in downscaling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Raje, Deepashree ^a   Mujumdar, P P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELIEF AND PLAUSIBILITY; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING METHODS; DS THEORY; FREQUENCY-SCALING; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS; NATURAL CLUSTERS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NON-STATIONARITIES; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL IMPACTS; STATIONARITY; THEORY OF EVIDENCE; UNCERTAINTY AND IGNORANCE; UNCERTAINTY MODELING; VALID ASSUMPTION;

CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INDIA; MAHANADI RIVER;

EID: 77955372451     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008425     Document Type: Article

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