Modelling runoff under current and future climates across the tropical savannas of northern Australia

34th IAHR Congress 2011 - Balance and Uncertainty: Water in a Changing World, Incorporating the 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and the 10th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1466-1473

  Petheram, C ^a   Rustomji, P ^a   Vleeshouwer, J ^a   Cresswell, R ^a   Chiew, F ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Rainfall runoff modelling; Regionalisation; Tropical

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDRAULICS; RAIN; RUNOFF; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; MODEL PARAMETER SETS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PHYSICAL SIMILARITIES; RAINFALL - RUNOFF MODELLING; REGIONALISATION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84858849685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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