Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

Vinícius B. P. Chagas; Pedro L. B. Chaffe; Günter Blöschl

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32580-x

Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

Vinícius B. P. Chagas,
Pedro L. B. Chaffe,
Günter Blöschl

Affiliations

Vinícius B. P. Chagas: Graduate Program of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Pedro L. B. Chaffe: Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Günter Blöschl: Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Technische Universität Wien

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32580-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle. A new study shows that the terrestrial water cycle in Brazil has been mostly drying or accelerating, aligned with changes in rainfall, water use, and forest cover.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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