Impacts of climate change on discharge in Switzerland: cascading uncertainties and robustness in models

Abstract

Climate change is ongoing, but although the occurrence of temperature increase at the planetary scale is well established, its impacts at the watershed scale are still unclear. Impacts on river discharge are of particular relevance for society, because of the importance of rivers, for instance for water resources, ecosystems, energy production and recreation. The investigation of hydrological changes induced by global warming relies principally on numerical models, which simulate climate evolution and its consequences on watershed hyd Show more