High-resolution climate change impact analysis on medium-sized river catchments in germany: An ensemble assessment

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1175-1193

  Ott, Irena ^a   Duethmann, Doris ^c   Liebert, Joachim ^a   Berg, Peter ^d   Feldmann, Hendrik ^e   Ihringer, Juergen ^a   Kunstmann, Harald ^a,b   Merz, Bruno ^b   Schaedler, Gerd ^e   Wagner, Sven ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVER; RUNOFF;

AMMER RIVER; BAVARIA; GERMANY; MULDE RIVER; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; RUHR RIVER; SAXONY-ANHALT;

EID: 84883763294     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-091.1     Document Type: Article

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