Development of a new downscaling method for hydrologic assessment of climate change impacts in data scarce regions and its application in the Western Ghats, India

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 435-447

  Wagner, Paul D ^a   Reichenau, Tim G ^a   Kumar, Shamita ^b   Schneider, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b BHARATI VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downscaling; Hydrologic modeling; India; SWAT; Water resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940959127     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0481-z     Document Type: Article

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