Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic
Attribution of trends in streamflow is complex, but essential, in identifying optimal management options for water resources. Disagreement remains on the relative role of climate change and human factors, including water abstractions and land cover change, in driving change in annual streamflow. We...
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ftunivmaynooth:oai:mural.maynoothuniversity.ie:13847 2024-04-07T07:54:46+00:00 Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic Vicente-Serrano, S M Peña‐Gallardo, M Hannaford, Jamie Murphy, Conor Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J Dominguez‐Castro, F López‐Moreno, J I Beguería, S Noguera, I Harrigan, Shaun Vidal, J P 2019 text https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13847/ https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13847/1/CM_climate.pdf en eng Wiley https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13847/1/CM_climate.pdf Vicente-Serrano, S M and Peña‐Gallardo, M and Hannaford, Jamie and Murphy, Conor and Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J and Dominguez‐Castro, F and López‐Moreno, J I and Beguería, S and Noguera, I and Harrigan, Shaun and Vidal, J P (2019) Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (19). ISSN 0094-8276 Article PeerReviewed 2019 ftunivmaynooth 2024-03-13T01:26:33Z Attribution of trends in streamflow is complex, but essential, in identifying optimal management options for water resources. Disagreement remains on the relative role of climate change and human factors, including water abstractions and land cover change, in driving change in annual streamflow. We construct a very dense network of gauging stations (n = 1,874) from Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal for the period of 1961–2012 to detect and then attribute changes in annual streamflow. Using regression‐based techniques, we show that climate (precipitation and atmospheric evaporative demand) explains many of the observed trends in northwest Europe, while for southwest Europe human disturbances better explain both temporal and spatial trends. For the latter, large increases in irrigated areas, agricultural intensification, and natural revegetation of marginal lands are inferred to be the dominant drivers of decreases in streamflow. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northeast Atlantic Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (National University of Ireland) |
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Attribution of trends in streamflow is complex, but essential, in identifying optimal management options for water resources. Disagreement remains on the relative role of climate change and human factors, including water abstractions and land cover change, in driving change in annual streamflow. We construct a very dense network of gauging stations (n = 1,874) from Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal for the period of 1961–2012 to detect and then attribute changes in annual streamflow. Using regression‐based techniques, we show that climate (precipitation and atmospheric evaporative demand) explains many of the observed trends in northwest Europe, while for southwest Europe human disturbances better explain both temporal and spatial trends. For the latter, large increases in irrigated areas, agricultural intensification, and natural revegetation of marginal lands are inferred to be the dominant drivers of decreases in streamflow. |
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Vicente-Serrano, S M Peña‐Gallardo, M Hannaford, Jamie Murphy, Conor Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J Dominguez‐Castro, F López‐Moreno, J I Beguería, S Noguera, I Harrigan, Shaun Vidal, J P |
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Vicente-Serrano, S M Peña‐Gallardo, M Hannaford, Jamie Murphy, Conor Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J Dominguez‐Castro, F López‐Moreno, J I Beguería, S Noguera, I Harrigan, Shaun Vidal, J P Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic |
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Vicente-Serrano, S M Peña‐Gallardo, M Hannaford, Jamie Murphy, Conor Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J Dominguez‐Castro, F López‐Moreno, J I Beguería, S Noguera, I Harrigan, Shaun Vidal, J P |
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Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic |
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Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic |
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Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic |
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Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic |
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Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic |
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climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the northeast atlantic |
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https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13847/1/CM_climate.pdf Vicente-Serrano, S M and Peña‐Gallardo, M and Hannaford, Jamie and Murphy, Conor and Lorenzo‐Lacruz, J and Dominguez‐Castro, F and López‐Moreno, J I and Beguería, S and Noguera, I and Harrigan, Shaun and Vidal, J P (2019) Climate, irrigation, and land-cover change explain streamflow trends in countries bordering the Northeast Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (19). ISSN 0094-8276 |
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