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Causes of change in 20th century global river discharge
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A global vegetation and hydrology model (LPJmL) was applied to quantify the contributions of changing precipitation, temperature, atmospheric CO 2 content, land use and irrigation to worldwide trends in 20th century river discharge (Q). Consistently with observations, Q decreased in parts of Africa, central/southern Asia and south‐eastern Europe, and increased especially in parts of North America and western Asia. Based on the CRU TS2.1 climatology, total global Q rose over 1901–2002 (trend, 30.8 km 3 a−2, equaling 7.7%), due primarily to increasing precipitation (individual effect, +24.7 km 3 a−2). Global warming (−3.1), rising CO 2 (+4.4), land cover changes (+5.9) and irrigation (−1.1) also had discernible effects. However, sign and magnitude of trends exhibited pronounced decadal variability and differed among precipitation forcing datasets. Since recent trends in these and other drivers of Q are mainly anthropogenic, we conclude that humans exert an increasing influence on the global water cycle.
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- Authors
- Gerten, D., Rost, S., von Bloh, W., & Lucht, W.
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2008-10
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 20
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W2049433045
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 14.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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