<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India"^^ . "The long-term impacts of climate change on water resources are expected to be considerable in\r\nSouthern India especially in the semi-arid regions. The effects of the changes on precipitation and\r\ntemperature are expected to alter the hydrology of catchments and ultimately water security. A complicating\r\nfactor in dealing with climate change from a water resource management perspective in India is the current\r\ngovernment policies that promote watershed development (WSD), a policy that promotes the capture of\r\nrunoff to increase groundwater recharge and irrigation development. In this paper the aim is to quantify the\r\nimpacts climate change and WSD will have on the hydrologic behavior of the Musi catchment Andhra\r\nPradesh.\r\nGlobal Climate Model (GCM) predictions of future climate are too coarse for hydrological modelling and fail\r\nto account for the most important influence on the monsoon rainfall patterns over India. In order to increase\r\nthe spatial resolution of the models, a dynamic downscaling approach was used in this research. Three\r\nclimate simulations corresponding to the IPCC-SRES A1B scenario were downscaled for the period 1961-\r\n2098 using “Providing REgional Climates for Impact Studies” (PRECIS) regional climate modelling system.\r\nThese simulations were based on three versions of the HadCM3 global climate model that showed realistic\r\nresults for the Indian summer monsoon.\r\nThe hydrology of the catchment was modelled using the SWAT hydrologic model. The model was set up for\r\nthe entire Musi catchment in the Krishna Basin for which the model calibration and validation was carried\r\nout at the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar gauging stations. Monthly and annual inflows were used to carry\r\nout the model calibration. The model calibration and validation yielded Nash-Sutcliffe coefficients ranging\r\nbetween 0.65 and 0.75, which indicate a good model performance.\r\nThe downscaled climate data was then used as forcing data in the model to carry out simulations for all three\r\nversions of the climate projection data ((Q0, Q1 and Q14). An analysis of flows at different time slices shows\r\nthat stream flows decline in the near future (2011-40) and then an increasing trend towards the end of the\r\ncentury. Under the Q1 scenario, annual stream flows show a systematic decline over the period of analysis.\r\nThe Q14 scenario shows an increase in stream flows over the next few decades followed by a decline towards\r\nthe end of the century. Potential evapotranspiration is predicted to increase for all the climate scenarios. The\r\nreservoir component option available in SWAT was used to assess the impact of watershed development\r\nstructures in the catchment and the analysis shows that stream flows have been declining due to the growth\r\nand impact of these structures in the catchment."^^ . "2013" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "B"^^ . "Davidson"^^ . "B Davidson"^^ . . "B"^^ . "George"^^ . "B George"^^ . . "R"^^ . "Nune"^^ . "R Nune"^^ . . "B"^^ . "Nawarathna"^^ . "B Nawarathna"^^ . . "D"^^ . "Ryu"^^ . "D Ryu"^^ . . "H"^^ . "Malano"^^ . "H Malano"^^ . . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India"^^ . . . . . "Adelaide, Australia"^^ . . . . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "AnAssesment_CP_ICMS_2013.pdf"^^ . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #7438 \n\nAn Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflows in the Musi Catchment, India\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics"@en . . . "Climate Change"@en . .