Mahanadi streamflow: climate change impact assessment and adaptive strategies

Ghosh, Subimal and Raje, Deepashree and Mujumdar, PP (2010) Mahanadi streamflow: climate change impact assessment and adaptive strategies. In: Current Science (Bangalore), 98 (8). pp. 1084-1091.

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Abstract

Impacts of climate change on hydrology are assessed by downscaling large scale general circulation model (GCM) outputs of climate variables to local scale hydrologic variables. This modelling approach is characterized by uncertainties resulting from the use of different models, different scenarios, etc. Modelling uncertainty in climate change impact assessment includes assigning weights to GCMs and scenarios, based on their performances, and providing weighted mean projection for the future. This projection is further used for water resources planning and adaptation to combat the adverse impacts of climate change. The present article summarizes the recent published work of the authors on uncertainty modelling and development of adaptation strategies to climate change for the Mahanadi river in India.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Current Science (Bangalore)
Publisher:	http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/25apr2010/contents.htm
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Current Science (Bangalore).
Keywords:	Adaptation;climate change;hydrologic impact;uncertainty
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited:	26 May 2010 07:00
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:07
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/28064

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