Download or read book Development of Integrated Regional Climate Modeling Methodologies for Impact Assessment written by Xiong Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has been one of the most prominent and critical environmental concerns due to its potential impacts. Climate change projections, as generated through global climate models (GCMs), have been widely employed for assessments of such impacts. However, GCMs have difficulty in representing the detailed local features over limited regions. Therefore, advanced metrologies are consequently required to investigate the potential impacts of climate change. In this dissertation research, a set of integrated regional climate modeling methodologies were developed to advance the previous methodologies for potential impact assessments at regional scales under climatic changing conditions, including (a) a coupled dynamical-copula downscaling (CDCD) approach, (b) an ANOVA-based factorial dynamical downscaling (AFDD) approach, (c) a Bayesian factorial modeling (BFM) approach, (d) an ensemble RCMs-driven VIC model, (e) a stepwise cluster Bayesian (SCB) ensemble method, and (f) a mixed-level factorial inference (MLFI) approach. The developed approaches in this research could be applicable to develop future projections of climate and hydrology. Such approaches are capable of exploring the possible effects of climate change at local and regional scales. Moreover, the main and interactive effects of multiple uncertain factors on climatic and hydrologic variables could be examined based on the proposed factorial analysis approaches. The results can provide decision makers with valuable information for mitigation and adaptation of the severe impacts of climatic changes on economic, social, and environmental sectors.