Assessing the effect of climate natural variability in water resources evaluation impacted by climate change

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1061-1071

  Liu, Yanli ^a,b   Zhang, Jianyun ^a,b   Wang, Guoqing ^a,b   Liu, Jiufu ^a,b   He, Ruimin ^a,b   Wang, Hongjie ^a,c   Liu, Cuishan ^a,b   Jin, Junliang ^a,b  

^a NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^b YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c Xinyang Hydrology and Water Resources Survey Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Block sampling simulation approach; Climate change; Climate natural variability; Delta change method; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BLOCK SAMPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; DELTA CHANGE METHOD; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; NATURAL VARIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING;

GREENHOUSE GASES; RUNOFF; SEPARATION; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84877920302     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9251     Document Type: Article

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