As one of the most pressing issues in the world, climate change has already caused evident impacts on natural and human systems (e.g., hydrological cycle, eco‐environment and socio‐economy) in recent decades. In this study, an integrated multi‐GCMs Bayesian‐neural‐network hydrological analysis (MBHA) method is developed for quantifying climate change impacts on runoff. MBHA incorporates multiple global climate models (multi‐GCMs), hydrological model (HBV‐light), and Bayesian neural network (BNN) within a general framework. MBHA can provide the reliable prediction for runoff as well as reflect the impact of climate change on data scarcity catchments. MBHA is applied to the Amu Darya River basin in Central Asia. Climate data are derived from multiple GCMs (i.e., GFDL‐ESM2G, HadGEM2‐AO and NorESM1‐M) under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Several findings can be summarized: (1) during 2021–2100, both precipitation and temperature would increase, with more precipitation falling as rain instead of snow; (2) by 2100, glacier areas are predicted to reduce by 62.3% (RCP4.5) and 71.9% (RCP8.5); (3) under RCP8.5, monthly runoff would increase by 11.2% in 2021–2060 and reduce by 5.0% in 2061–2100; this is because the glaciers would rapidly disappear with the rising temperature after 2060. The findings suggest that the shrinked glacier and the reduced runoff threaten the water availability especially in summer seasons as well as affect the agricultural irrigation in the downstream of the Amu Darya River.
Assessing the impacts of multiple sources on statistical downscaling is challenged by uncertainty from global climate model (GCM), scenario and factor. In our study, by integrating stepwise cluster analysis (SCA), wavelet-based multiscale entropy (WME), and multi-level factorial analysis (MFA); a SCA-WME-MFA is developed to quantitatively analyze the diverse uncertainty (i.e., numerical fluctuation, and the complexity of the modes) of daily mean temperatures (Tmean) for Amu Darya River Basin (ADRB). The major results reveal that: (i) the most remarkable warming rate would be obtained (0.056 ± 0.015 *C/year) under SSP5-8.5; (ii) Compared to the base period (
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