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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Introduction

Authors : Michele Vurro, Emanuela Bruno, Ivan Portoghese

Published in: Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

The chapter briefly describes available water resources, water demand, and main climatic conditions in Mediterranean area; then it refers on the pathway to create a reliable chain from GCMs to hydrological model and what are the bottlenecks and the sources of uncertainties for the chain. The comparison of downscaling approaches reports that no general rule can be drawn, but these approaches must be tuned to the particular catchment and application.

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Metadata
Title
Introduction
Authors
Michele Vurro
Emanuela Bruno
Ivan Portoghese
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean

Print ISBN: 978-94-007-5780-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-5781-3

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5781-3_7