Articles | Volume 374
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-374-41-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-374-41-2016
17 Oct 2016
 | 17 Oct 2016

Crystal balls into the future: are global circulation and water balance models ready?

Balázs M. Fekete, Giovanna Pisacane, and Dominik Wisser

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Short summary
Variabilities and changes due to natural and anthropogenic causes in the water cycle always presented a challenge for water management planning. Practitioners traditionally coped with variabilities in the hydrological processes by assuming stationarity. Recently, this practice was questioned and more reliance on Global Circulation Models was put forward as an alternative. This paper takes a brief assessment of the state of Global Circulation Models (GCM) and their applications.