Modelling climate impact on floods with ensemble climate projections

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 671, 2013, Pages 282-297

  Cloke, Hannah L ^a,b   Wetterhall, Fredrik ^b   He, Yi ^c   Freer, Jim E ^d   Pappenberger, Florian ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ENSEMBLES; GCM; Hydrological model; Hydrology; Perturbed physics; RCM; Response surface; UKCP09

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; GCM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; RCM; RESPONSE SURFACE; UKCP09;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; HAZARDS; HYDROLOGY; LASERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUNOFF; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EUROPEAN UNION; FLOOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIVER DISCHARGE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84875375940     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1998     Document Type: Article

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