Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Divergent effects of climate change on future groundwater availability in key mid-latitude aquifers

  • Wen-Ying Wu,
  • Min-Hui Lo,
  • Yoshihide Wada,
  • James S. Famiglietti,
  • John T. Reager,
  • Pat J.-F. Yeh,
  • Agnès Ducharne,
  • Zong-Liang Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17581-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Climate change may impact groundwater storage and thus the availability of freshwater resources. Here the authors use climate models to examine seven aquifers and find that storage changes are primarily the result of enhancement of evapotranspiration, reduction in snowmelt, and over-pumping rather than long-term precipitation changes.