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Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate

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2005

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Milly, P C D, Dunne, K A, and Vecchia, A V, 2005, Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate: Nature, v. 438, iss. 7066, p. 347-350 LA - en.

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Water availability on the continents is important for human health, economic activity, ecosystem function and geophysical processes. Because the saturation vapour pressure of water in air is highly sensitive to temperature, perturbations in the global water cycle are expected to accompany climate warming. Regional patterns of warming-induced changes in surface hydroclimate are complex and less certain than those in temperature, however, with both regional increases and decreases expected in precipitation and runoff. Here we show that an ensemble of 12 climate models exhibits qualitative and statistically significant skill in simulating observed regional patterns of twentieth-century multidecadal changes in streamflow. These models [...]

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Added to ScienceBase on Tue Apr 23 15:19:52 MDT 2013 by processing file <b>Continental Water, Climate, and Earth-System Dynamics.xml</b> in item <a href="https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/504216b7e4b04b508bfd333f">https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/504216b7e4b04b508bfd333f</a>

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 10.1038/nature04312

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