Impact of atmospheric moisture in a rainfall downscaling framework for catchment-scale climate change impact assessment

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-450

  Mehrotra, R ^a   Sharma, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric moisture; Climate change; Rainfall; Stochastic downscaling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DAILY RAINFALL; DEW POINTS; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE POINTS; NON-PARAMETRIC; RAINFALL; RAINFALL DOWNSCALING; REANALYSIS; SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA; TEMPERATURE DEPRESSION; WINTER RAINFALL;

CATCHMENTS; MOISTURE; RAIN; RATING; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RAINFALL; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77956821394     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2067     Document Type: Article

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