Abstract
The pursuit of creating a developed world with high living standards has led to numerous human activities that have resulted in climate change. Despite improvements in living standards, the repercussions of climate change have threatened the world's sustainability. One significant impact is on water resources, as climate change alters water dynamics and distribution across space and time. Many organisations have developed state-of-the-art climate models to understand climate change better, and collective efforts are being made to improve our understanding of various Earth processes to refine existing models. With advancements in scientific understanding and computational power, new developments are being made in climate modelling and climate change studies. These include designing mechanisms for future trajectories in a warming world and regularly supplementing them with new information. The efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from their First Assessment Report (FAR) to their most recent Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), are evidence of this scientific development. Understanding climate change and climate data handling is now a prerequisite for researchers in water resources. This chapter provides an overview of various concepts related to climate change, climate models, climate data downscaling, and the state and fate of water resources in the changing climate.
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Singh, V.P., Singh, R., Paul, P.K., Bisht, D.S., Gaur, S. (2024). Climate Change Impact Analysis. In: Hydrological Processes Modelling and Data Analysis. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 127. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1316-5_5
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