[HTML][HTML] The North American regional climate change assessment program: overview of phase I results

LO Mearns, R Arritt, S Biner… - Bulletin of the …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I
Results in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 93 Issue 9 (2012) Jump …

A multi-scale perspective of water pulses in dryland ecosystems: climatology and ecohydrology of the western USA

ME Loik, DD Breshears, WK Lauenroth, J Belnap - Oecologia, 2004 - Springer
In dryland ecosystems, the timing and magnitude of precipitation pulses drive many key
ecological processes, notably soil water availability for plants and soil microbiota. Plant …

[HTML][HTML] Changes toward earlier streamflow timing across western North America

IT Stewart, DR Cayan, MD Dettinger - Journal of climate, 2005 - journals.ametsoc.org
The highly variable timing of streamflow in snowmelt-dominated basins across western
North America is an important consequence, and indicator, of climate fluctuations. Changes …

Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation

JF Weltzin, ME Loik, S Schwinning, DG Williams… - Bioscience, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Abstract Changes in Earth's surface temperatures caused by anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse gases are expected to affect global and regional precipitation …

Elevation dependency of recent and future minimum surface air temperature trends in the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings

X Liu, Z Cheng, L Yan, ZY Yin - Global and Planetary Change, 2009 - Elsevier
Elevation dependency of climate change signals has been found over major mountain
ranges such as the European Alps and the Rockies, as well as over the Tibetan Plateau. In …

Quantifying surface water–groundwater interactions using time series analysis of streambed thermal records: Method development

CE Hatch, AT Fisher, JS Revenaugh… - Water Resources …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present a method for determining streambed seepage rates using time series thermal
data. The new method is based on quantifying changes in phase and amplitude of …

Irrigation cooling effect: Regional climate forcing by land‐use change

LM Kueppers, MA Snyder… - Geophysical Research …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Regional detection of a greenhouse warming signal relies on extensive, long‐term
measurements of temperature. The potentially confounding impact of land‐cover and land …

Impacts of future climate change on California perennial crop yields: Model projections with climate and crop uncertainties

DB Lobell, CB Field, KN Cahill, C Bonfils - Agricultural and Forest …, 2006 - Elsevier
Most research on the agricultural impacts of climate change has focused on the major
annual crops, yet perennial cropping systems are less adaptable and thus potentially more …

Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Sierra Nevada, California, under two emissions scenarios

EP Maurer - Climatic change, 2007 - Springer
A hydrologic model was driven by the climate projected by 11 GCMs under two emissions
scenarios (the higher emission SRES A2 and the lower emission SRES B1) to investigate …

Climate warming and water management adaptation for California

SK Tanaka, T Zhu, JR Lund, RE Howitt, MW Jenkins… - Climatic Change, 2006 - Springer
The ability of California's water supply system to adapt to long-term climatic and
demographic changes is examined. Two climate warming and a historical climate scenario …