Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

  • Goutam Konapala,
  • Ashok K. Mishra,
  • Yoshihide Wada,
  • Michael E. Mann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16757-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Adequate water availability is key to human and ecosystem sustainability. Here, the authors show that seasonally variable regimes become more variable, and the combined influence of seasonality and magnitude of climate variables will affect future water availability.