Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 195-221

  Döll, Petra ^a   Douville, Hervé ^b   Güntner, Andreas ^c   Müller Schmied, Hannes ^a   Wada, Yoshihide ^d,e,f  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Climate data; Global hydrological model; Model uncertainty; Remote sensing data; Water abstraction

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE DATA; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; WATER ABSTRACTION;

WATER RESOURCES;

CALIBRATION; FRESHWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84961142892     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-015-9343-1     Document Type: Review

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