Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base (1992) / Chapter Skim
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15 Hydrology
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Water vapor, water droplets, and ice crystals are crucial elements in the climatic system. Several aspects of the hydrologic cycle are important with respect to climate change.
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These include inadequate characterization of the Southeast Asian summer monsoon rainfall and the summer rains in the southern Zaire basin. Recent models also show large differences in estimates of the intensity of tropical ocean rainbelts (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1990~.
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A clear example is the interaction between changes in precipitation and CO2, which functions as a growth stimulant to green plants. Third, current climate change predictions are not sufficiently detailed to permit conclusions about the consequences for the biosphere for either natural ecosystems or land management practices.
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Moreover, the spatial scales of the output of the direct forecasting methods are usually one or more orders of magnitude larger than those of watersheds and catchments, which are common in hydrology. Mainly for this reason, most hydrologists concerned with the likelihood of climate change have made use of indirect approaches.
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New York: Cambridge University Press. National Research Council.
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