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Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed
Fadji Z. Maina
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
1 Cyclotron Road, M.S. 74R-316C, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
now at: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences
Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Alan Rhoades
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, M.S. 74R-316C, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn
Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
1 Cyclotron Road, M.S. 74R-316C, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Peter-James Dennedy-Frank
Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
1 Cyclotron Road, M.S. 74R-316C, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
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Short summary
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.
In this work, we assess the effects of end-of-century extreme dry and wet conditions on the...
