%0 Report
%9 IIASA Collaborative Paper
%A Ozga-Zielinska, M.
%A Brzezinski, J.
%A Feluch, W.
%C IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
%D 1994
%F iiasa:4211
%T Meso-Scale Hydrologic Modeling for Climate Impact Assessments: A Conceptual and A Regresssion Approach
%U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4211/
%X 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.