Potential drought stress in a Swiss mountain catchmentEnsemble forecasting of high mountain soil moisture reveals a drastic decrease, despite major uncertainties

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rössler, Ole ^a,b   Diekkrüger, Bernd ^b   Löffler, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; ALPINE AREAS; DIRECT USE; DOWN-SCALING; DROUGHT STRESS; DRY SPELLS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; HIGH VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MESOSCALE; MOISTURE DEPLETION; MOISTURE LEVEL; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SNOW AND ICE; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VEGETATION PATTERN;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROSPHERE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PASTURE; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84860245311     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011188     Document Type: Article

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