Publication Date:
2007-04-07
Description:
How anthropogenic climate change will affect hydroclimate in the arid regions of southwestern North America has implications for the allocation of water resources and the course of regional development. Here we show that there is a broad consensus among climate models that this region will dry in the 21st century and that the transition to a more arid climate should already be under way. If these models are correct, the levels of aridity of the recent multiyear drought or the Dust Bowl and the 1950s droughts will become the new climatology of the American Southwest within a time frame of years to decades.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Seager, Richard -- Ting, Mingfang -- Held, Isaac -- Kushnir, Yochanan -- Lu, Jian -- Vecchi, Gabriel -- Huang, Huei-Ping -- Harnik, Nili -- Leetmaa, Ants -- Lau, Ngar-Cheung -- Li, Cuihua -- Velez, Jennifer -- Naik, Naomi -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 May 25;316(5828):1181-4. Epub 2007 Apr 5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. seager@ldeo.columbia.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17412920" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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