DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-5517-2017
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85034030752
论文题名: Future shift of the relative roles of precipitation and temperature in controlling annual runoff in the conterminous United States
作者: Duan K ; , Sun G ; , McNulty S ; G ; , Caldwell P ; V ; , Cohen E ; C ; , Sun S ; , Aldridge H ; D ; , Zhou D ; , Zhang L ; , Zhang Y
刊名: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
ISSN: 10275606
出版年: 2017
卷: 21, 期: 11 起始页码: 5517
结束页码: 5529
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Climate change
; Runoff
; Water supply
; Climatic variables
; Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
; Eco-hydrological models
; Evaporative demands
; Historical records
; Primary control
; Stress index models
; Temperature rise
; Climate models
; climate modeling
; climate prediction
; CMIP
; ecohydrology
; hydrological modeling
; precipitation (climatology)
; runoff
; temperature effect
; twenty first century
; Pacific Coast [North America]
; Pacific Coast [United States]
; United States
英文摘要: This study examines the relative roles of climatic variables in altering annual runoff in the conterminous United States (CONUS) in the 21st century, using a monthly ecohydrological model (the Water Supply Stress Index model, WaSSI) driven with historical records and future scenarios constructed from 20 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate models. The results suggest that precipitation has been the primary control of runoff variation during the latest decades, but the role of temperature will outweigh that of precipitation in most regions if future climate change follows the projections of climate models instead of the historical tendencies. Besides these two key factors, increasing air humidity is projected to partially offset the additional evaporative demand caused by warming and consequently enhance runoff. Overall, the projections from 20 climate models suggest a high degree of consistency on the increasing trends in temperature, precipitation, and humidity, which will be the major climatic driving factors accounting for 43-50, 20-24, and 16-23g% of the runoff change, respectively. Spatially, while temperature rise is recognized as the largest contributor that suppresses runoff in most areas, precipitation is expected to be the dominant factor driving runoff to increase across the Pacific coast and the southwest. The combined effects of increasing humidity and precipitation may also surpass the detrimental effects of warming and result in a hydrologically wetter future in the east. However, severe runoff depletion is more likely to occur in the central CONUS as temperature effect prevails. © Author(s) 2017. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/79005
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作者单位: Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, United States; Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, United States; Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; State Climate Office of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Recommended Citation:
Duan K,, Sun G,, McNulty S,et al. Future shift of the relative roles of precipitation and temperature in controlling annual runoff in the conterminous United States[J]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,2017-01-01,21(11)