[PDF] Top 20 Assessing uncertainties in climate change impacts on runoff in Western Mediterranean basins

... changing climate, but few studies (see ...from climate projections to hydrolog- ical modelling in the assessment of climate change impact on ...resolution climate simulations from the ... See full document

... in climate change projections is generally larger than that related to the use of three hydro- logic models, which simulate the same direction of change in mean ...of climate change on ... See full document

... major impacts on natural and man-made systems in terms of increased frequency and severity of ...where runoff from extreme rainfall amount events causes rising streamflows (Zhang et ...future climate ... See full document

... river basins in Spain and Portugal to simulate the effects of climate change on runoff production, river flows and water resource availability with results aggregated to the monthly ...of ... See full document

... river runoff in a warmer global climate; decreases in some regions ...annual runoff for 21 catchments in Great Britain-with a tendency toward lower amounts of discharge, especially in sensitive areas ... See full document

... Future climate projections robustly indicate that the Mediterranean region will experience a significant de- crease of mean annual precipitation and an increase in tem- ...hydrologic impacts of ... See full document

... projected climate change is expected to alter the mon- soon patterns and increase temperature in the ...of climate change’s impact on hy- drology, we found a high variation in the discharge results ... See full document

... Abstract Climate change and drought phenomena impacts have become a growing concern for water resources engineers and policy makers, mainly in arid and semi-arid ...for climate change ... See full document

... The impacts of climate change in terms of forest vegetation shifts and Net Primary Productivity (NPP) changes are assessed for Brahmaputra, Koshi and Indus river basins for the mid (2021-2050) ... See full document

... all climate models from the CMIP5 ensemble in a particular impact assessment study, as substantial resources and computer time are required for evaluation of each climate ...relative change in ... See full document

... of exposed bedrock (Grodek et al., 2012). The area has a long history of intensive cultivation that reduced soil depth and resulted in many abandoned terraces. The landscape is dominated by cultivations and areas covered ... See full document

... to climate variability among the four basins stud- ied are remarkably large; the Limpopo basin with the lowest runoff coefficient being the most ...all climate model projections result in ... See full document

... Lejeusne, C., Chevaldonné, P., Pergent-Martini, C., Boudouresque, C. F., and Pérez, T.: Climate change effects on a miniature ocean: the highly diverse, highly impacted Mediterranean Sea, Trends ... See full document

... of climate change is not identical for all cultivars of sorghum: adverse impacts on mean yield and yield variability were found to be the lowest for modern cultivars with a short and nearly fi xed ... See full document

... and Michaels (1994) reported that streamflow has increased throughout much of the conterminous United States since the early 1940's, with the increases primarily occurring in autumn and winter. Mekis and Hogg (1997) ... See full document

... temporal change of a me- teorological ...average change in precipitation from the RCM data, while a scaling of precip- itation intensity better preserves the changes in ...the climate change ... See full document

... The framing of adaptation as it is currently has been moved to focus more on the wider socioeconomic drivers of vulnerability and people’s ability that can help them in responding to the climate change ... See full document

... potential impacts of climate change (Bazzaz ; AFED ; Hamdy ; Yildiz ...the Mediterranean has been identified as one of the hot spots of climate change (Giorgi ...the ... See full document

... to climate change should concentrate on the use of drought-tolerant cultivars, increasing water-use efficiency, and better matching phenol- ogy to new environmental ...the Mediterranean region, ... See full document

... the climate change impacts on water cycle processes at the basin scale is a step to building adaptive ...regional climate model (RCM) ensembles are considered as an input to the hydrological ... See full document