Simulation of Water Balance Using CORDEX over a Large River Indian Basin
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the hydrologic responses under climate change scenarios over a large river basin, Upper Narmada River Basin (UNB), India. Narmada is one of the longest western flowing rivers of India that fulfills the water requirement of Central India. In this paper, a semi-distributed hydrologic model soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) is used for estimating the future hydrological components under changing climate. Model is fine-tuned and validated by observed discharge data. In order to assess the impact of climate change, regional climate models (RCMs) from Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)–MIROC5 and MPI-ESM-LR are used to simulate the water balance components. The hydrological responses of the basin were simulated under historical (1971–2000) and future climate (2071–2100) scenarios, considering the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. Climate data were bias corrected before coupling with hydrological model.
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