Climate change impacts

WaSiM was specifically developed to analyse the impact of climate change on water ressources. It can be used to quantify changes in all major water balance components and to estimate change trends.

WaSiM provides a flexible interface to take climate change scenarios into account. Scenarios can be provided as location data (e.g. for climate stations) as well as as gridded data sets.

Selected references:

Kleinn, J., C. Frei, J. Gurtz, D. Lüthi, P.L. Vidale, C. Schär (2005)

Hydrologic simulations in the Rhine basin driven by a regional climate model.

J. Geophys. Res. 110(D0), 4102, doi:10.1029/2004JD005143 [Link]

Jasper, K., P. Calanca, D. Gyalistras, J. Fuhrer (2004)

Differential impacts of climate change on the hydrology of two alpine river basins.

Clim. Res. 26(2): 113-129 [Link]

Kunstmann, H., K. Schneider, R. Forkel, R. Knoche (2004)

Impact analysis of climate change for an Alpine catchment using high resolution dynamic downscaling of ECHAM4 time slices.

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 8: 1031-1045 [Link]

Schulla (1997)

Hydrologische Modellierung von Flussgebieten zur Abschätzung der Folgen von Klimaäanderungen.

Diss. 12018, ETH Zürich, 163 S. [PDF]