Climate change impacts
that alters the trends in hydro-climatic extremes between regions, yet the projected uncertainty being a key characteristic to quantify and reduce.
Funded projects
Swedish Research Council (VR)
2016-2018 "WaterRain-Him: Changes in Water Resources and Adaptation options in the Indian-Himalayan basins", (nr. 348-2014-33), SMHI as Coordinator, 300 K Euros, 4 partners (co-PI and Project Leader)
Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences (SSEESS)
2015-2016 "Participatory analyses to sustain the lifeline of the Ganga River Basin under future conditions", (grant nr. KVA/2015/111/75), 9 K Euros (PI and Coordinator)
2014-2016 "ISI-MIP2: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project phase 2", SMHI contributes at the water sector with results from E-HYPE, Arctic-HYPE, India-HYPE and Niger-HYPE at 6 focus regions, 10 partners (SMHI's Project Manager)
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
2012-2013 "Assessment of climate change impacts on water resources in the Luni river basin, Rajasthan, India, using CORDEX results", (AKT-2012-022), SMHI coordinates, 210 K Euros, 2 partners (Consortium's Project Manager)
Recommended references
Sebok, E., et al., 2022, 'Use of expert elicitation to assign weights to climate and hydrological models in climate impact studies', Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 5605–5625, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5605-2022<br>
Ziogas A., Pechlivanidis I.G., Romas E., Tzimas A., 2021, 'Climate service derived indicators to assess the impact of climate change on river assimilative capacity', Climate Services, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100250
Kiesel J., Stanzel P., Kling H., Jähnig S., Fohrer N., Pechlivanidis I.G., 2020, 'Streamflow-based evaluation of climate model sub-selection methods for impact assessments', Climatic Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02854-8
Hundecha Y., Arheimer B., Berg P., Capell R., Musuuza J., Pechlivanidis I.G., Photiadou C., 2020, 'Effect of model calibration strategy on climate projections of hydrological indicators at a continental scale', Climatic Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02874-4
Pechlivanidis I.G., Gupta H., Bosshard T., 2018, 'An information theory approach to identifying a representative subset of hydro-climatic simulations for impact modeling studies', Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2017WR022035.
Krysanova, V., Vetter T., Eisner S., Huang S., Pechlivanidis I.G., Strauch M., Aich V., Arheimer B., Chamorro A., Gelfan A., van Griensven A., Kumar R., Kundu D., Lobanova A., Mishra V., Plötner S., Reinhardt J., Seidou O., Wang X., Wortmann M., Zeng X., Hattermann F.F., 2017, Intercomparison of regional-scale hydrological models and climate change impacts projected for 12 large river basins worldwide - A synthesis, Environ. Res. Lett., 12(10), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa8359.
Pechlivanidis I.G., Arheimer B., Donnelly C., Hundecha Y., Huang S., Aich V., Samaniego L., Eisner S., Shi P., 2017, 'Analysis of hydrological extremes at different hydro-climatic regimes under present and future conditions', Clim. Change, 141, 467-481, doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1723-0.
Samaniego L., Kumar R., Breuer L, Chamorro A., Flörke M., Pechlivanidis I.G., Schäfer D., Shah H., Vetter T., Wortmann M., Zeng X., 2017, 'Propagation of forcing and model uncertainty into hydrological drought characteristics in a multi-model century-long experiment in continental river basins', Clim. Change, 141, 435-449, doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1778-y.
Vetter T., Reinhardt J., Flörke M., van Griensven A., Hattermann F., Huang S., Koch H., Pechlivanidis I.G., Plötner S., Seidou O., Buda S., Vervoort W., Krysanova V., 2017, 'Evaluation of sources of uncertainty in projected hydrological changes under climate change in 12 large-scale river basins', Clim. Change, 141, 419-433, doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1794-y.
Pechlivanidis I.G., Olsson J., Bosshard T., Sharma D., Sharma K.C., 2016, 'Multi-basin modelling of future hydrological fluxes in the Indian subcontinent', Water Journal, 8(5), 177, 1-21, doi: 10.3390/w8050177