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Climate Change Impacts On Precipitation Extremes Over The Columbia River Basin Based On Downscaled Cmip5 Climate Scenarios, Ghulam Hussain Dars May 2013

Climate Change Impacts On Precipitation Extremes Over The Columbia River Basin Based On Downscaled Cmip5 Climate Scenarios, Ghulam Hussain Dars

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Hydro-climate extreme analysis helps understanding the process of spatio-temporal variation of extreme events due to climate change, and it is an important aspect in designing hydrological structures, forecasting floods and an effective decision making in the field of water resources design and management. The study evaluates extreme precipitation events over the Columbia River Basin (CRB), the fourth largest basin in the U.S., by simulating four CMIP5 global climate models (GCMs) for the historical period (1970-1999) and future period (2041-2070) under RCP85 GHG scenario.

We estimated the intensity of extreme and average precipitation for both winter (DJF) and summer (JJA) seasons …