Assessing future droughts in Australia - A nesting model to correct for long-term persistence in general circulation model precipitation simulations

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3935-3941

  Johnson, F M ^a   Sharma, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Climate change; General circulation model (GCM); Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RAIN; STREAM FLOW; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 85086275694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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