Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States Export

@article{citeulike:2682984, abstract = {Observations have shown that the hydrological cycle of the western United States changed significantly over the last half of the 20th century. We present a regional, multivariable climate change detection and attribution study, using a high-resolution hydrologic model forced by global climate models, focusing on the changes that have already affected this primarily arid region with a large and growing population. The results show that up to 60\% of the climate-related trends of river flow, winter air temperature, and snow pack between 1950 and 1999 are human-induced. These results are robust to perturbation of study variates and methods. They portend, in conjunction with previous work, a coming crisis in water supply for the western United States. 10.1126/science.1152538}, author = {Barnett, Tim P. and Pierce, David W. and Hidalgo, Hugo G. and Bonfils, Celine and Santer, Benjamin D. and Das, Tapash and Bala, Govindasamy and Wood, Andrew W. and Nozawa, Toru and Mirin, Arthur A. and Cayan, Daniel R. and Dettinger, Michael D.}, citeulike-article-id = {2682984}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1152538}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5866/1080}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18239088}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18239088}, day = {22}, doi = {10.1126/science.1152538}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {anthropogenic, climate, hydrology, impacts, regional, us, us-w, water}, month = {February}, number = {5866}, pages = {1080--1083}, posted-at = {2009-02-08 15:34:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1152538}, volume = {319}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2682984 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2682984 N2 - Observations have shown that the hydrological cycle of the western United States changed significantly over the last half of the 20th century. We present a regional, multivariable climate change detection and attribution study, using a high-resolution hydrologic model forced by global climate models, focusing on the changes that have already affected this primarily arid region with a large and growing population. The results show that up to 60% of the climate-related trends of river flow, winter air temperature, and snow pack between 1950 and 1999 are human-induced. These results are robust to perturbation of study variates and methods. They portend, in conjunction with previous work, a coming crisis in water supply for the western United States. 10.1126/science.1152538 IS - 5866 JF - Science EP - 1083 TI - Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States VL - 319 SP - 1080 KW - anthropogenic KW - climate KW - hydrology KW - impacts KW - regional KW - us KW - us-w KW - water AU - Barnett, Tim AU - Pierce, David AU - Hidalgo, Hugo AU - Bonfils, Celine AU - Santer, Benjamin AU - Das, Tapash AU - Bala, Govindasamy AU - Wood, Andrew AU - Nozawa, Toru AU - Mirin, Arthur AU - Cayan, Daniel AU - Dettinger, Michael PY - 2008/02/22/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1152538 ER -