Downscaling future climate scenarios to fine scales for hydrologic and ecological modeling and analysis

Ecological Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Flint, Lorraine E ^a   Flint, Alan L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; downscaling; scenarios; spatial scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

DOWN-SCALING; ECOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; INVERSE DISTANCE SQUARED; SCENARIOS; SPATIAL SCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85029069680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-1-2     Document Type: Article

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