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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-935-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-935-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
01 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 01 Mar 2016
Projecting water yield and ecosystem productivity across the United States by linking an ecohydrological model to WRF dynamically downscaled climate data
Shanlei Sun
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Ge Sun
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA
Erika Cohen
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA
Steven G. McNulty
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA
Peter V. Caldwell
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, USA
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Yang Zhang
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Short summary
This study links an ecohydrological model with WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) dynamically downscaled climate projections of the HadCM3 model under the IPCC SRES A2 emission scenario. Water yield and ecosystem productivity response to climate change were highly variable with an increasing trend across the 82 773 watersheds. Results are useful for policy-makers and land managers in formulating appropriate watershed-specific strategies for sustaining water and carbon sources.
This study links an ecohydrological model with WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model)...
