Are the effects of vegetation and soil changes as important as climate change impacts on hydrological processes?

Rasouli, Kabir; Pomeroy, John W.; Whitfield, Paul H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4933-2019

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03 Dec 2019

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Are the effects of vegetation and soil changes as important as climate change impacts on hydrological processes?

Kabir Rasouli, John W. Pomeroy, and Paul H. Whitfield

Data sets

Hydrometeorological data collected at Wolf Creek Research Basin, Yukon Territory, Canada over 1993-2014 K. Rasouli, J. Pomeroy, J. R. Janowicz, T. Williams, and S. Carey https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0113

Short summary

The combined effects of changes in climate, vegetation, and soils on mountain hydrology were modeled in three mountain basins. In the Yukon, an insignificant increasing effect of vegetation change on snow was found to be important enough to offset the climate change effect. In the Canadian Rockies, a combined effect of soil and climate change on runoff became significant, whereas their individual effects were not significant. Only vegetation change decreased runoff in the basin in Idaho.