Joint climate-hydrology modeling: An impact study for the data-sparse environment of the Volta Basin in West Africa

Hydrology Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 231-248

  Jung, Gerlinde ^a,b   Wagner, Sven ^a   Kunstmann, Harald ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrological modeling; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL STRESS; DISCHARGE CHANGES; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HISTORICAL PERIODS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; IMPACT STUDY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; JOINT MODELS; MODEL COMPONENTS; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; PHYSICALLY BASED; RAINY SEASONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY; TIME SLICE; VOLTA BASIN; WATER SHORTAGES; WEST AFRICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPETITION; RAIN; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

HYDROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATER RESOURCE;

VOLTA BASIN;

EID: 84860601259     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.044     Document Type: Article

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