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The Role of Water and the Hydrological Cycle in Global Change

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Howard R. Oliver

    1. Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

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  2. Sylvia A. Oliver

    1. Chalgrove, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 31)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. The Role of Water in Global Environmental Change Processes

    • Max Beran
    Pages 1-22

  3. Evaluating the Terrestrial Water Balance from the Historical Climate Record

    • David R. Legates, Cort J. Willmott
    Pages 23-58

  4. Hydrology in Climate Models and Effects on Climate

    • Peter R. Rowntree, Lydia Dümenil
    Pages 59-104

  5. Plant Control on Evapotranspiration: Models and Measurements

    • Willem Bouten
    Pages 105-133

  6. Soil — Vegetation — Atmosphere Relations: Process and Prospect

    • William James Shuttleworth
    Pages 135-162

  7. Effects of CO2-fertilization on Evapotranspiration

    • Willem Bouten, Jan Goudriaan
    Pages 163-188

  8. Snow and Ice Cover and Climate Sensitivity

    • J. Oerlemans, R. Bintanja
    Pages 189-198

  9. The role of the atmosphere in the water cycle

    • José Pinto Peixoto
    Pages 199-252

  10. Laurentian Great Lakes Dynamics, Climate, and Response to Change

    • Thomas E. Croley II
    Pages 253-296

  11. Modeling of Runoff and Streamflow at Regional to Global Scales

    • Dennis P. Lettenmaier
    Pages 297-316

  12. New Trends in Modelling Soil Processes from Hillslope to GCM Scales

    • Ezio Todini
    Pages 317-347

  13. River Runoff Data for the Validation of Climate Simulation Models

    • Nigel W. Arnell
    Pages 349-371

  14. Introduction to Climate Impact Assessment

    • Stewart J. Cohen
    Pages 373-388

  15. Scenarios for Hydrological Climate Change Impact Studies

    • Nigel W. Arnell
    Pages 389-407

  16. Potential Changes to Hydrological Systems

    • Stewart J. Cohen
    Pages 409-427

  17. Socio-economic impacts of changes in water resources due to global warming

    • Nigel W. Arnell
    Pages 429-457

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 459-470
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About this book

Water is an extremely important factor in global environmental change. Water influences the processes causing change. The human and economic consequences of changes in the water system can be very significant. The aim of this NATO Advanced Study Institute was to present a state-of-the-art assessment of the role of water in global change, ranging from a consideration of atmospheric processes to the social and political impacts of changes in water resources. Many initiatives have recently been developed, such as international conferences and research programmes in particular themes, but there was still a need for information from these diverse activities to be brought together. One of the aims of the ASI was to encourage cross-fertilization between the various disciplines looking at water in the global system. This book contains the expanded written versions of the lectures presented during the AS! held in Italy in May/June 1994. It falls into two basic parts. The first twelve chapters cover the role of water in the climate system and climate modelling. Various areas of the water balance including global budgets, the effect of each element of the water balance on regional and global climates, and procedures used to model hydrological processes at all scales are discussed. Precipitation, ice, lake, groundwater, land surface and atmospheric considerations are included together with hydrological process linkage to climate models. Ocean effects were not covered as they were considered to be outside the scope of this particular AS!.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

    Howard R. Oliver

  • Chalgrove, Oxford, UK

    Sylvia A. Oliver

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