Emergence of significant changes in surface water PDF is detected across CONUS. Such emergence can be derived using global temperature increments at the national scale independent of emission scenarios but the relationship does not hold at sub-basin scale. The emergence of significant changes are due to changes in interannual variability rather than seasonal mean.
Revised: May 30, 2017 |
Published: October 25, 2016
Citation
Leng G., M. Huang, N. Voisin, X. Zhang, G.R. Asrar, and L. Leung. 2016.Emergence of new hydrologic regimes of surface water resources in the Conterminous United States under future warming.Environmental Research Letters 11, no. 11:Article No. 114003.PNNL-SA-117644.doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114003