Publications Published in Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change

1. Streamflow Changes in the Sierra Nevada, California, Simulated Using Astatistically Downscaled General Circulation Model Scenario of Climate Change. Wilby, Robert; Dettinger, Michael.
   Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change: 2003
   Notes
   Simulations of future climate using general circulation models (GCMs) suggest that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have significant consequences for the global climate. Of less certainty is the extent to which regional scale (i.e., sub-GCM grid) environmental processes will be affected. In this chapter, a range of downscaling techniques are critiqued. Then a relatively simple (yet robust) statistical downscaling technique and its use in the modelling of future runoff scenarios for three river basins in the Sierra Nevada, California, is described. This region was selected because GCM experiments driven by combined greenhouse-gas and sulphate-aerosol forcings consistently show major changes in the hydro-climate of the southwest United States by the end of the 21st century.