@techreport{iiasa4211, month = {May}, type = {IIASA Collaborative Paper}, title = {Meso-Scale Hydrologic Modeling for Climate Impact Assessments: A Conceptual and A Regresssion Approach}, address = {IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria}, publisher = {CP-94-010}, year = {1994}, url = {https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4211/}, abstract = {The paper presents two different approaches to hydrologic modeling for Climate Impact Assessments: A conceptual water balance model and a non-parametric regression model. They both are designed for modeling large-scale river basins (Meso-Scale) at a monthly time step and to accept GCM-based climate scenarios defined as changes in monthly precipitation and temperature. The data requirements for the models are historical, multi-annual series of mean monthly temperature, precipitation, and runoff. These data are used to calibrate the models. GCM data or user-defined sensitivity of climatic variable must be provided for the assessment analyses. The paper describes the theoretical bases of both approaches and presents the results of a comparison of the application of the models to the Vistula River Basin in Poland.}, author = {Ozga-Zielinska, M. and Brzezinski, J. and Feluch, W.} }