Abstract
Over the recent years, several research efforts investigated the impact of climate change on water resources for different regions of the world. The projection of future river flows is affected by different sources of uncertainty in the hydro-climatic modelling chain. One of the aims of the QBic3 5 project (Que´bec-Bavarian International Collaboration on Climate Change) is to assess the contribution to uncertainty of hydrological models by using an ensemble of hydrological models presenting a diversity of structural complexity (i.e. lumped, semi distributed and distributed models). The study investigates two humid, mid-latitude catchments with natural flow conditions; one located in 10 Southern Que´bec (Canada) and one in Southern Bavaria (Germany). Daily flow is simulated with four different hydrological models, forced by outputs from regional climate models driven by a given number of GCMs’ members over a reference (1971–2000) and a future (2041–2070) periods. The results show that the choice of the hydrological model does strongly affect the climate change response of selected hydrological indicators, especially those related to low flows. Indicators related to high flows seem less sensitive on the choice of the hydrological model. Therefore, the computationally less demanding models (usually simple, lumped and conceptual) give a significant level of trust for high and overall mean flows.
Item Type: | Paper |
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Form of publication: | Publisher's Version |
Faculties: | Geosciences > Department of Geography > Physical Geography and Remote Sensing |
Subjects: | 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences and geology |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-14097-8 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 14097 |
Date Deposited: | 08. Oct 2012, 08:56 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 12:54 |