Robust decision making in data scarce contexts: addressing data and model limitations for infrastructure planning under transient climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 323-337

  Shortridge, Julie ^a   Guikema, Seth ^b   Zaitchik, Ben ^c  

^a State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; INTEGRATED MODEL FRAMEWORK; IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY; STREAMFLOW MODELING; TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE; WATER INFRASTRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEVELOPING WORLD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; STREAMFLOW; VULNERABILITY; WATER PLANNING;

ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA BASIN;

EID: 84994275147     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1845-4     Document Type: Article

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