Modeling Uncertainty Resulting from Multiple Downscaling Methods in Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3559-3579

  Ghosh, Subimal ^a   Katkar, Sudhir ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Statistical downscaling; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING METHODS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; EXTREME RAINFALL; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODELING UNCERTAINTIES; PERFORMANCE BASED; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; REANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES; TRAINING AND TESTING; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASSAM; INDIA; MEGHALAYA;

EID: 84865461567     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0090-5     Document Type: Article

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