Effect of modelling scale on the assessment of climate change impact on river runoff;Effet de l'échelle de modélisation sur l'évaluation de l'impact du changement climatique sur l'écoulement fluvial

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 737-754

  Piniewski, Mikołaj ^a   Voss, Frank ^b   Bärlund, Ilona ^b,c   Okruszko, Tomasz ^a   Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W ^d,e  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENVIRONMENT   (Poland)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

catchment hydrological model; climate change; global hydrological model; Narew River; Poland; SWAT; WaterGAP

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; POLAND; SWAT; WATERGAP;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; RIVERS;

RUNOFF;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; TEMPERATURE;

NAREW RIVER; POLAND;

EID: 84877575389     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.778411     Document Type: Article

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