H24B:
Application of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) in Hydrologic Climate Change Impact Studies Posters

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Session ID#: 6899

Session Description:
An increasing number of regional climate model simulations have been performed and used to dynamically downscale changes in hydro-climate variables to regional scales. While RCMs are generally biased with respect to historical observations, they have attracted much attention because they offer users a dynamically consistent set of variables and they are only weakly bound by the stationarity assumption that underlies statistical downscaling techniques. This session highlights studies on the application of RCMs in hydrologic climate change impact assessments; RCM accuracy and how it compares with General Circulation Models (GCMs) and statistically downscaled simulations; use of RCMs in analyses of extremes; bias correction; improved accuracy via increased resolution; coupling of RCMs and hydrologic models; and statistical downscaling of RCMs to higher resolution. Although the emphasis is on hydrologic quantities such as runoff, studies on other hydro-climatic variables such as temperature and precipitation that provide insight into RCM usefulness are also welcome.
OSPA Liaison:  Alex J Cannon, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Chair:  Mohammad Reza Najafi, Western University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Mohammad Reza Najafi, Western University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
Convener:  Alex J Cannon, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1839 Hydrologic scaling [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ES - Earth Surface Processes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
H24B-0236
The Effect of Inter-Basin Water Transfer on the Water Resources of Betwa Basin, India (33737)
Shakti Suryavanshi1, Ashish Pandey2, Umesh Chandra Chaube2 and Surendra Kumar Mishra3, (1)National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee, Water Resources and Climate change, Roorkee, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, WRD&M, Roorkee, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Roorkee, India
 
H24B-0237
Hydrological impacts of the changes in simulated rainfall fields on the Nakanbe basin in Burkina Faso (34399)
Boubacar Ibrahim, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), Competence Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Harouna Karambiri, International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE), Laboratory of Water, Hydro-Systems and Agriculture (LEHSA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Jan Polcher, CNRS/IPSL, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France
 
H24B-0238
Simulation of Hydrological cycle in Western Canadian regions using CLASS/Canadian Regional Climate Model (36143)
Waqar Younas, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada and Stephen J Dery, University of Northern British Columbia, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Prince George, BC, Canada
 
H24B-0240
Development of a Simple Framework to Assess Hydrological Extremes using Solely Climate Data (36798)
Etienne Foulon, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Patrick Gagnon, Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada - AAC, Québec City, QC, Canada and Alain N Rousseau, Professeur-chercheur titulaire, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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