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Evidence of impacts from rising temperature on inflows to the Murray‐Darling Basin
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The 2001–2007 Australian drought was the hottest on record with inflows to Australia's longest river system, the Murray‐Darling, reaching an historical low. Here we examine the relative importance of rising temperature and decreasing rainfall over its catchment, the Murray Darling Basin (MDB). Although annual‐total inflow is more sensitive to rainfall over the southern MDB, where rainfall since 2001, has been the lowest on record, this alone can not explain the observed inflow decline. A relationship exists between inflow variations and fluctuations of temperature not associated with rainfall in the austral winter and spring: a rise of 1°C leads to an approximate 15% reduction in the climatological annual inflow. Our results provide strong evidence that rising temperatures due to the enhanced greenhouse effect have a strong impact on southern Australia's water resources, in addition to any reduction in rainfall, and project a long‐term decline in inflows to this river system as the greenhouse effect continues.
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- Authors
- Cai, W., & Cowan, T.
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
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- W1875154698
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- 225
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 22.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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