The role of hydrological modelling uncertainties in climate change impact assessments of Irish river catchments

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 562-576

  Bastola, Satish ^a   Murphy, Conor ^a   Sweeney, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

BMA; Climate change; GLUE; Ireland; Rainfall runoff model; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; BMA; CATCHMENT SCALE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; EMISSION SCENARIO; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HETEROSCEDASTIC; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; IMPACT STUDY; IRELAND; MULTI-MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RIVER CATCHMENT; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; GLUES; GLUING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER SYSTEM; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IRELAND;

EID: 79954834257     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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