Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

Adequate water availability is key to human and ecosystem sustainability. Here, the authors show that seasonally variable regimes become more variable, and the combined influence of seasonality and magnitude of climate variables will affect future water availability.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Goutam Konapala, Ashok K. Mishra, Yoshihide Wada, Michael E. Mann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-06-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16757-w
Description
Summary:Adequate water availability is key to human and ecosystem sustainability. Here, the authors show that seasonally variable regimes become more variable, and the combined influence of seasonality and magnitude of climate variables will affect future water availability.
ISSN:2041-1723