Climatic Change: Implications for the Hydrological Cycle and for Water Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Changes in the mean and extremes of the hydrological cycle in Europe under enhanced greenhouse gas conditions in a global time-slice experiment

   • Wilhelm May, Reinhard Voss, Erich Roeckner

   Pages 1-29

3. Investigation of the hydrologic cycle simulated by the Canadian Regional Climate Model over the Québec/Labrador territory

   • Anne Frigon, Daniel Caya, Michel Slivitzky, Denis Tremblay

   Pages 31-55

4. Major influences on precipitation in the Canary Islands

   • David Gallego Puyol, Ricardo García Herrera, Emiliano Hernández Martín, Luis Gimeno Presa, Pedro Ribera Rodríguez

   Pages 57-73

5. High resolution simulations of precipitation over the Alps with the perspective of coupling to hydrological models

   • O. Brasseur, H. Gallée, J.-D. Creutin, T. Lebel, P. Marbaix

   Pages 75-99

6. Heavy precipitation occurrence in Scandinavia investigated with a Regional Climate Model

   • Ole Bøssing Christensen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, Michael Botzet

   Pages 101-112

7. Testing of NAO and ENSO signals in the precipitation field in Europe

   • C. Mares, Ileana Mares, Mihaela Mihailescu

   Pages 113-121

8. Water vapor vertical profile by Raman lidar in the free troposphere from the Jungfraujoch Alpine Station

   • Ioan Balin, Gilles Larchevêque, Philippe Quaglia, Valentin Simeonov, Hubert Van Den Bergh, Bertrand Calpini

   Pages 123-138

9. A qualitative assessment of the sources of uncertainty in climate change impacts assessment studies

   • David Viner

   Pages 139-149

10. The GLOWA Volta project: Integrated assessment of feedback mechanisms between climate, landuse, and hydrology

    • Nick Van De Giesen, Harald Kunstmann, Gerlinde Jung, Jens Liebe, Marc Andreini, Paul L. G. Vlek

    Pages 151-170

11. GLOWA Danube: A research concept to develop integrative techniques, scenarios and strategies regarding global changes of the water cycle

    • W. Mauser, R. Ludwig

    Pages 171-188

12. Climate change and water resources in Sweden — analysis of uncertainties

    • M. Gardelin, S. Bergström, B. Carlsson, L. P. Graham, G. Lindström

    Pages 189-207

13. Hydrological cycle changes in China’s large river basin: The Yellow River drained dry

    • Changming Liu, Hongxing Zheng

    Pages 209-224

14. Floods in the context of climate change and variability

    • Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

    Pages 225-247

15. Climate change impacts on river flooding: A modelling study of three meso-scale catchments

    • Lucas Menzel, Daniel Niehoff, Gerd Bürger, Axel Bronstert

    Pages 249-269

16. Impact of climate change and higher CO2 on hydrological processes and crop productivity in the state of Brandenburg, Germany

    • Valentina Krysanova, Frank Wechsung

    Pages 271-300

17. Local climate and water availability changes due to landscape modifications

    • N. Hasler, I. Iorgulescu, A. Martilli, G. E. Liston, R. Schlaepfer

    Pages 301-328

18. Trends in drought in Swiss forested ecosystems

    • Bärbel Zierl, Heike Lischke

    Pages 329-347

19. Feedback between structured vegetation and soil water in a changing climate: A simulation study

    • Heike Lischke, Bärbel Zierl

    Pages 349-377

20. Water control and property rights: An analysis of the Middle Eastern situation

    • Urs Luterbacher, Ellen Wiegandt

    Pages 379-409

year simulations in order to separate noise in the system from the climate change signal. Several contributing papers focused on case studies using Regional Climate Models (RCMs) linked to hydrological models, applied to the analysis of runoff under conditions of convective activity and extreme precipitation, in regions of complex topography, or stakeholder-driven investigations such as water runoff simulations in Quebec undertaken for a major utility. Thorough analyses of GCM results for the Century were reported at the Workshop, in order to illustrate the improvements in model results which have taken place in recent years, and the increasing confidence with which the models can be used for projecting climatic change in coming decades. However, there is still much room for improvement; there is also a need to address more fully the manner in which climate and impacts models (e. g. , hydrological models) can be linked, in terms of consistency and the overlap between different scales, the underlying physical assumptions, and the parameterizations used. Session 2 was devoted to the two extremes of water resources, namely floods and droughts, the focus here being to identify the climate change component in river floods. These have significant economic implications, as was shown by several scientists from Western and Central Europe. Many long time series have been studied worldwide with the aim of detection of nonstationarities, yet there is no conclusive evidence of climate-related changes in flow records, in general.

• Greenhouse gas
• Precipitation
• Scale
• Troposphere
• climate change
• ecosystem
• vegetation
• ecotoxicology

"This book is recommended as an excellent review, well worth reading."
(Holocene, 13/1 (2003)

• Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  Martin Beniston

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