Stochastic decadal climate simulations for the Berg and Breede Water Management Areas, Western Cape province, South Africa

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Greene, Arthur M ^a   Hellmuth, Molly ^a   Lumsden, Trevor ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRU AGROHYDROLOGICAL MODELS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; CROP SIMULATIONS; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DOWN-SCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; JOINT MODELING; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; REALISTIC VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESAMPLING SCHEME; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE , SOUTH AFRICA;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOCORRELATION; CATCHMENT; DECADAL VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUNOFF; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84861881631     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011152     Document Type: Article

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