Projected 21st Century climate change on Snow fall and Snow melt over Shasta DamWatershed by means of dynamical downscaling |
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학술지명 ASCE
저자 Ishida,장수형,Trinh,Ohara,Kavvas
발표일 2015-05-19
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Snow is a very important component of the Earth’s climate system and is particularly vulnerable to global warming. It has been suggested that warmer temperatures may cause significant declines in snow water content and snow cover duration. In this study, snow fall and snow melt were projected by means of Watershed Environmental Hydrology Hydro-Climate Model (WEHY-HCM) over Shasta Dam Watershed (SDW) to assess changes in snow water content and snow cover duration during 21st century. This physically based (WEHY-HCM) snow module requires both physical data and atmospheric data. For this purpose prior information such as topography and land cover were collected and analyzed by GIS, and the latter information were taken from downscaled atmospheric data of global climate models (GCMs) (EH5 and CCSM3). A bias correction between simulated historical precipitation and PRISM observations was |