Rehana, S and Mujumdar, PP (2013) Impacts of climate change on regional water resources. In: Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 93 (2). pp. 227-241.
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Abstract
Water is the most important medium through which climate change influences human life. Rising temperatures together with regional changes in precipitation patterns are some of the impacts of climate change that have implications on water availability, frequency and intensity of floods and droughts, soil moisture, water quality, water supply and water demands for irrigation and hydropower generation. In this article we provide an introduction to the emerging field of hydrologic impacts of climate change with a focus on water availability, water quality and irrigation demands. Climate change estimates on regional or local spatial scales are burdened with a considerable amount of uncertainty, stemming from various sources such as climate models, downscaling and hydrological models used in the impact assessments and uncertainty in the downscaling relationships. The present article summarizes the recent advances on uncertainty modeling and regional impacts of climate change for the Mahanadi and Tunga-Bhadra Rivers in India.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of the Indian Institute of Science |
| Publisher: | Indian Institute of Science |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Institute of Science. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change; Statistical Downscaling; GCM; Uncertainties |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2013 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2013 07:01 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/47268 |
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