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The chapter briefly describes available water resources, water demand, and main climatic conditions in Mediterranean area; then it refers on the pathway to create a reliable chain from GCMs to hydrological model and what are the bottlenecks and the sources of uncertainties for the chain. The comparison of downscaling approaches reports that no general rule can be drawn, but these approaches must be tuned to the particular catchment and application.
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Vurro, M., Bruno, E., Portoghese, I. (2013). Introduction. In: Navarra, A., Tubiana, L. (eds) Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5781-3_7
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