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Markku Rummukainen

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Climate change impacts on runoff in Sweden - Assessments by global climate models, dynamical downscalling and hydrological modelling

Author

  • S. Bergström
  • B. Carlsson
  • M. Gardelin
  • G. Lindström
  • A. Petterson
  • M. Rummukainen

Summary, in English

The Swedish regional climate modelling programme, SWECLIM, started in 1997 with the main goal being to produce regional climate change scenarios over the Nordic area on a time scale of 50 to 100 yr. An additional goal is to produce water resources scenarios with a focus on hydropower production, dam safety, water supply and environmental aspects of water resources. The scenarios are produced by a combination of global climate models (GCMs), regional climate models and hydrological runoff models. The GCM simulations used thus far are 10 yr time slices from 2 different GCMs, UKMO HadCM2 from the Hadley Centre and the ECHAM4/OPYC3 of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. The regional climate model is a modified version of the international HIRLAM forecast model and the hydrological model is the HBV model developed at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Scenarios of river runoff have been simulated for 6 selected basins covering the major climate regions in Sweden. Changes in runoff totals, runoff regimes and extreme values have been analysed with a focus on the uncertainties introduced by the choice of GCM and routines for estimation of evapotranspiration in the hydrological model. It is further shown how these choices affect the statistical return periods of future extremes in a design situation.

Publishing year

2001-01-18

Language

English

Pages

101-112

Publication/Series

Climate Research

Volume

16

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Inter-Research

Keywords

  • Climate change impact
  • Evapotranspiration
  • HBV
  • Hydrological model
  • Regional climate model
  • Scenario
  • SWECLIM
  • Water resources

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0936-577X