Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation, temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic response to extreme meteorological drought conditions over the North American High Plains
Abstract
Abstract. Drought is a natural disaster that may become more commonin the future under climate change. It involves changes to temperature,precipitation and/or land cover, but the relative contributions of each ofthese factors to overall drought severity is not clear. In this work we apply ahigh-resolution integrated hydrologic model of the High Plains to explorethe individual importance of each of these factors and the feedbacks betweenthem. The model was constructed using ParFlow-CLM, which represents surfaceand subsurface processes in detail with physically based equations.Numerical experiments were run to perturb vegetation, precipitation andtemperature separately and in combination. Results show that decreasedprecipitation caused larger anomalies in evapotranspiration, soil moisture,stream flow and water table levels than increased temperature ordisturbed land cover did. However, these factors are not linearly additive whenapplied in combination; some effects of multifactor runs came frominteractions between temperature, precipitation and land cover. Spatialscale was important in characterizing impacts, as unpredictable andnonlinear impacts at small scales aggregate to predictable, linear large-scale behavior.
- Authors:
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[2];
[3]
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States); SS Papadopulos and Associates, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1529324
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 1204787
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Online); Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1607-7938
- Publisher:
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Hein, Annette, Condon, Laura, and Maxwell, Reed. Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation, temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic response to extreme meteorological drought conditions over the North American High Plains. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019.
Hein, Annette, Condon, Laura, & Maxwell, Reed. Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation, temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic response to extreme meteorological drought conditions over the North American High Plains. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019
Hein, Annette, Condon, Laura, and Maxwell, Reed. Wed .
"Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation, temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic response to extreme meteorological drought conditions over the North American High Plains". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1529324.
@article{osti_1529324,
title = {Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation, temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic response to extreme meteorological drought conditions over the North American High Plains},
author = {Hein, Annette and Condon, Laura and Maxwell, Reed},
abstractNote = {Abstract. Drought is a natural disaster that may become more commonin the future under climate change. It involves changes to temperature,precipitation and/or land cover, but the relative contributions of each ofthese factors to overall drought severity is not clear. In this work we apply ahigh-resolution integrated hydrologic model of the High Plains to explorethe individual importance of each of these factors and the feedbacks betweenthem. The model was constructed using ParFlow-CLM, which represents surfaceand subsurface processes in detail with physically based equations.Numerical experiments were run to perturb vegetation, precipitation andtemperature separately and in combination. Results show that decreasedprecipitation caused larger anomalies in evapotranspiration, soil moisture,stream flow and water table levels than increased temperature ordisturbed land cover did. However, these factors are not linearly additive whenapplied in combination; some effects of multifactor runs came frominteractions between temperature, precipitation and land cover. Spatialscale was important in characterizing impacts, as unpredictable andnonlinear impacts at small scales aggregate to predictable, linear large-scale behavior.},
doi = {10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019},
journal = {Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Online)},
number = 4,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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