Climate Change Projection of Snow Cover Over Three Mountainous In Northern California |
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학술지명 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
저자 Toan,Ohara,장수형,Ishida,J Chen,Kavvas
발표일 2015-04-29
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In the study, we present the climate change projection of snow cover over the Upper Feather River Watershed (UFRW), the Yuba River Watershed (YRW), and the American River Watershed (ARW), which are located in the high elevation area of Northern California and play a key role in water supply for downstream populated regions. For these three snow-dominated mountainous watersheds, the 13 future projections of atmospheric conditions provided by general circulation models (GCM), including the Fifth-Generation European Centre Hamburg Model (ECHAM5) and the Third-Generation Community Climate System Model (CCSM3), are used as boundary conditions and are dynamically downscaled to 9 km resolution for a continuous 100 years simulation (2000-2099) by the Fifth-Generation PSU/NCAR mesoscale model (MM5). The physically based WEHY snow module, which is driven by the downscaled future climate projections, is used to simulate the snow cover changes in the three watersheds at hourly increments and with spatial resolution of 100 meters |