6533b7d2fe1ef96bd125dff8

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Moroccan Climate in the Present and Future: Combined View from Observational Data and Regional Climate Scenarios

Andreas H. FinkM. ChristophHeiko PaethPeter KnippertzK. BornP. Speth

subject

Water balanceGeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryGlobal climateClimatologyHydrological modellingDrainage basinMM5Climate changeSubsurface flowDownscaling

description

The impact of climate change on water availability in the Middle East and the Upper Jordan catchment (UJC) is investigated by dynamic downscaling of ECHAM4 time slices and subsequent hydrological modelling. Two time slices (1961–90 and 2070–99) of the global climate scenario B2 of ECHAM4 were dynamically downscaled with the meteorological model MM5 in two nesting steps of 54 km and 18 km resolution. The meteorological fields were used to drive a physically based hydrological model, computing in detail the surface and subsurface water flow and water balance of the UJC.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2008-08-13
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85047-2_4