Investigating the Impact of Climate Change on Future Runoff of River Satluj

Authors

  • Narayan P Gautam Department of Meteorology, Tri-Chandra M. Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu
  • Manohar Arora National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee 247 667
  • N.K. Goel Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee 247 667
  • A.R.S. Kumar National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee 247 667

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/jhm.v8i1.15568

Keywords:

Climate change, climatic scenario, General Circulation Model, statistical downscaling

Abstract

Climate change has been emerging as one of the challenges in the global environment. Information of predicted climatic changes in basin scale is highly useful to know the future climatic condition in the basin that ultimately becomes helpful to carry out planning and management of the water resources available in the basin. Climatic scenario is a plausible and often simplified representation of the future climate, based on an internally consistent set of climatological relationships that has been constructed for explicit use in investigating the potential consequences of anthropogenic climate change. This study based on statistical downscaling, provide good example focusing on predicting the rainfall and runoff patterns, using the coarse general circulation model (GCM) outputs. The outputs of the GCMs are utilized to study the impact of climate change on water resources. The present study has been taken up to identify the climate change scenarios for Satluj river basin, India.

Journal of Hydrology and Meteorology, Vol. 8(1) p.10-21

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Published

2016-08-30

How to Cite

Gautam, N. P., Arora, M., Goel, N., & Kumar, A. (2016). Investigating the Impact of Climate Change on Future Runoff of River Satluj. Journal of Hydrology and Meteorology, 8(1), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.3126/jhm.v8i1.15568

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Articles