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Ground Water and Climate ChangeAs the world's largest distributed store of fresh water, ground water plays a central part in sustaining ecosystems and enabling human adaptation to climate variability and change. The strategic importance of ground water for global water and food security will probably intensify under climate change as more frequent and intense climate extremes (droughts and floods) increase variability in precipitation, soil moisture and surface water. Here we critically review recent research assessing the impacts of climate on ground water through natural and human-induced processes as well as through groundwater-driven feedbacks on the climate system. Furthermore, we examine the possible opportunities and challenges of using and sustaining groundwater resources in climate adaptation strategies, and highlight the lack of groundwater observations, which, at present, limits our understanding of the dynamic relationship between ground water and climate.
Document ID
20140006609
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE1744
Authors
Taylor, Richard G. (University Coll. London, United Kingdom)
Scanlon, Bridget (Texas Univ. Austin, TX, United States)
Doell, Petra (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Rodell, Matt (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
van Beek, Rens (Utrecht Univ. Utrecht, Netherlands)
Wada, Yoshihide (Utrecht Univ. Utrecht, Netherlands)
Longuevergne, Laurent (Rennes Univ. France)
Leblanc, Marc (James Cook Univ. of North Queensland Townsville, Australia)
Famiglietti, James S. (California Univ. Irvine, CA, United States)
Edmunds, Mike (Oxford Univ. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Konikow, Leonard (Geological Survey Reston, VA, United States)
Green, Timothy R. (Department of Agriculture Fort Collins, CO, United States)
Chen, Jianyao (National Sun Yat-Sen Univ. Gangzhou, China)
Taniguchi, Makoto (Research Inst. for Humanity and Nature Kyoto, Japan)
Bierkens, Marc F. P. (Utrecht Univ. Utrecht, Netherlands)
MacDonald, Alan (Natural Environmental Research Council Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Fan, Ying (Rutgers Univ. Newark, NJ, United States)
Maxwell, Reed M. (Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO, United States)
Yechieli, Yossi (Geological Survey of Israel Jerusalem, Israel)
Gurdak, Jason J. (San Francisco State Univ. San Francisco, CA, United States)
Allen, Diana M. (Simon Fraser Univ. Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada)
Shamsudduha, Mohammad (University Coll. London, United Kingdom)
Hiscock, Kevin (East Anglia Univ. Norwich, United Kingdom)
Yeh, Pat J. -F (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Tsukuba, Japan)
Holman, Ian (Cranfield Univ. Cranfield, United Kingdom)
Treidel, Holger (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Paris, France)
Date Acquired
June 3, 2014
Publication Date
April 1, 2013
Publication Information
Publication: Nature Climate Change
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
Volume: 3
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN9297
Funding Number(s)
OTHER: 0
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
climate change
groundwater
water cycle

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