The Case Studies

Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 136-182

  Paiva, Rodrigo C D ^a   Collischonn, Walter ^a   Schettini, Edith Beatriz C ^a   Vidal, Jean Philippe ^b   Hendrickx, Frédéric ^c   Lopez, Ana ^d,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b CENTRE DE LYON VILLEURBANNE   (France)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case studies, climate change impact on water resources in Quara River Basin; Case study of water resource management in south west of England; Climate change impact on hydropower in Ariege, France; Climate change impact on hydropower; Climate change scenarios (2020, 2050 and 2085) through climate scenario generator, MAGICC SCENGEN; Climate, more variable than water resources managers and hydrologists assume; Human society and its well being on Earth associated with climate; Hydrological impact of 54 projections of climate change for 2050 using MGB IPH model; Land use, elevation maps and MGB IPH model discretization for Quara basin; Value of climate model perturbed physics ensembles (PPE) planning public water supply under climate change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885971454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324921.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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