Projections of climate change impacts on river flood conditions in Germany by combining three different RCMs with a regional eco-hydrological model

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 631-663

  Huang, Shaochun ^a   Hattermann, Fred F ^a   Krysanova, Valentina ^a   Bronstert, Axel ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; FLOODS; GAGES; RIVERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL MAXIMUM SERIES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ECO-HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV) DISTRIBUTIONS; INTEGRATED MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SIMULATED DISCHARGES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ECOHYDROLOGY; FLOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONALIZATION; RIVER; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84872673045     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0586-2     Document Type: Article

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