Articles | Volume 26, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3589-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3589-2022
Research article
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13 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2022

Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed

Fadji Z. Maina, Alan Rhoades, Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn, and Peter-James Dennedy-Frank

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In this work, we assess the effects of end-of-century extreme dry and wet conditions on the hydrology of California. Our results, derived from cutting-edge and high-resolution climate and hydrologic models, highlight that (1) water storage will be larger and increase earlier in the year, yet the summer streamflow will decrease as a result of high evapotranspiration rates, and that (2) groundwater and lower-order streams are very sensitive to decreases in snowmelt and higher evapotranspiration.