What are the impacts of bias correction on future drought projections?

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 525, Issue , 2015, Pages 472-485

  Johnson, Fiona ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Drought; General circulation model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; TIME SERIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS-CORRECTION METHODS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGIES; MODEL STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTIES; RAINFALL STATISTICS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRECTION; DROUGHT STRESS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84927931757     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.002     Document Type: Article

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