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The impact of climate change on rainfall and
streamflow in the Denmark River catchment
8 Recommendations
To increase confidence in the projected rainfall and streamflow results,
improvements could be made to a number of areas in this study.
- Previous studies of the south-west of Western Australia have shown that
different GCMs project different climate results (Kitsios et al. 2008). Future
work should account for this through the assessment and weighting of multiple
GCMs.
- As knowledge of the parameters describing changes in vegetation and
potential evaporation improves, the results should be incorporated into the
hydrologic model.
- In this study the hydrologic model was calibrated to all available rainfall
stations in and around the Denmark River catchment. However, in future
studies it may be beneficial to calibrate the hydrologic model with only the
rainfall stations used in the statistical downscaling model. This needs further
investigation.
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