Conference Agenda

To characterise the impact of climate change on urban water management, hydrological models need data from climate projections at finer spatial and temporal resolutions than climate models can produce. Downscaling methods are therefore necessary. Thus, an existing method, using local weather types (LWT), has been enriched to also adequately downscale rainfall events in intensity and dynamics so that all the meteorological variables required by the hydro-climatic Town Energy Balance (TEB) model are produced. By comparing with observed hourly data, four different approaches have been evaluated, by LWT or random approaches, and show very good results in terms of both daily precipitation duration and maximum intensity.