Evaluation of rule and decision tree induction algorithms for generating climate change scenarios for temperature and pan evaporation on a lake basin

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 828-835

  Goyal, Manish Kumar ^a,b,c   Ojha, C S P ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; India; Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) scenarios; Pichola lake; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; DECISION TABLES; DECISION TREES; EVAPORATION; LAKES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INDIA; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECISION MAKING; DOWNSCALING; EVAPORATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKE WATER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

INDIA; PICHOLA LAKE; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84896266751     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000795     Document Type: Article

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