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Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment

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2004

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Thomson, Allison M., Brown, Robert A., Rosenberg, Norman J., Srinivasan, Raghavan, and Izaurralde, R. Cesar, 2004, Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment: Climatic Change, v. 69.

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Global climate change will impact the hydrologic cycle by increasing the capacity of the atmosphere to hold moisture. Anticipated impacts are generally increased evaporation at low latitudes and increased precipitation at middle and high latitudes. General Circulation Models (GCMs) used to simulate climate disagree on whether the U.S. as a whole and its constituent regions will receive more or less precipitation as global warming occurs. The impacts on specific regions will depend on changes in weather patterns and are certain to be complex. Here we apply the suite of 12 potential climate change scenarios, previously described in Part 1, to the Hydrologic Unit Model of the United States (HUMUS) to simulate water supply in the conterminous [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • Northeast CASC

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