Assessing future rainfall projections using multiple GCMS and a multi-site stochastic downscaling model

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 488, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-100

  Mehrotra, R ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a   Kumar, D Nagesh ^b   Reshmidevi, T V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Daily rainfall; Malaprabha catchment; Modified Markov model; Multiple GCMS; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; RAIN; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; DAILY RAINFALL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL FOR CLIMATE CHANGES; MARKOV MODEL; MULTIPLE GCMS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; DOWNSCALING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STOCHASTICITY;

INDIA; KARNATAKA; MALAPRABHA BASIN;

EID: 84886300952     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.046     Document Type: Article

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