Addressing sources of uncertainty in runoff projections for a data scarce catchment in the Ecuadorian Andes

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 221-235

  Exbrayat, Jean François ^a,b   Buytaert, Wouter ^c   Timbe, Edison ^d,e   Windhorst, David ^d   Breuer, Lutz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ISOMERS; RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION DATASETS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EMISSION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

EID: 84945954973     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1160-x     Document Type: Article

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