Chapter 6: Evaluation of dynamically downscaled rainfall -- 6.1. Reliability of Climate Simulations by GCMs and RCMs -- 6.2. Reason of Differences between GCM/RCM Results and Observations -- 6.3. Uncertainty in Climate Impact Projections from Various GCMs/RCMs and Different Scenarios -- 6.4 Discussion -- Chapter 7: Statistical approach to downscaling of urban rainfall extremes -- 7.1. Motivation for Statistical Downscaling as Compared to Dynamical Downscaling -- 7.2. Delta Change and Climate Factors -- 7.3. Empirical Transfer Functions -- General empirical downscaling -- Separation of downscaling and bias correction steps -- Quantile mapping -- 7.4. Re-Sampling Methods or Weather Typing -- 7.5. Conditional Probability-based or Stochastic Modelling -- 7.6. Verification of Statistically Downscaled Climate Model Results -- 7.7. Discussion -- Chapter 8: Future changes in rainfall extremes -- 8.1. At-Site Changes in Rainfall Extremes -- 8.2. Regional Changes in Rainfall Extremes -- 8.3. Uncertainty in Rainfall Changes -- 8.4. Discussion -- Chapter 9: Future impacts on urban drainage -- 9.1 Generation of Rainfall Input for Urban Drainage Impact Calculation -- Event-based versus continuous simulation based approaches -- Accounting for impact uncertainties -- 9.2. Impacts on Urban Drainage Flows, Sewer Floods, Surcharges and Overflows -- Impacts of climate change only -- Impacts of climate change and/versus urbanization -- 9.3. Other Types of Sewer Impacts -- 9.4. Discussion -- Chapter 10: Climate change adaptation and flexible design -- 10.1. Scope and Purpose of Adaptation -- Choice of adaptation strategy -- Need for adaptation within the urban drainage sector -- 10.2. New Design Philosophies and Adaptation Options in Urban Drainage -- Decentralized local storage to cope with the increased rainfall variability. |