Implications of climate change for water resources development in the Ganges basin (English)

This paper presents the first basin-wide assessment of the potential impact of climate change on the hydrology and production of the Ganges system, undertaken as part of the World Bank’s Ganges Strategic Basin Assessment. A series of modeling efforts, downscaling of climate projections, water balance calculations, hydrological simulation and economic optimization, inform the assessment. The authors find that projections of precipitation across the...

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Jeulanda, Marc;

Harshadeep,Nagaraja Rao;

Escurrab, Jorge;

Blackmore,Donald J.;

Sadoff,Claudia Winkelman;
Document Date
2013/01/01
Document Type
Working Paper
Report Number
103888
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2016/03/10
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Disclosed
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Implications of climate change for water resources development in the Ganges basin
Keywords
implications of climate change for water

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Jeulanda, Marc; Harshadeep,Nagaraja Rao; Escurrab, Jorge; Blackmore,Donald J.; Sadoff,Claudia Winkelman.

Implications of climate change for water resources development in the Ganges basin (English). 15 (2013) 26–50|Water Policy Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/531851468197634067

Implications of climate change for water resources development in the Ganges basin (English)

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