Assessing severe drought and wet events over india in a future climate using a nested bias-correction approach

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 760-772

  Ojha, Richa ^a   Nagesh Kumar, D ^a   Sharma, A ^b   Mehrotra, R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Drought; General circulation model; India; Nested bias correction; Precipitation; Standardized precipitation index; Wet

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INDIA; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; WET;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEVERE WEATHER; TIME SERIES;

INDIA;

EID: 84881347138     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000585     Document Type: Article

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