Will CMIP5 GCMs reduce or increase uncertainty in future runoff projections?

Proceedings of the 34th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 477-484

  Teng, Jin ^a   Chiew, Francis H S ^a   Vaze, Jai ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; MEAN ANNUAL RUNOFFS; MEDIAN PROJECTIONS; RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; RUNOFF PROJECTIONS; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84925352002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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