For more information, read the Climate Analysis and Monitoring Meeting Report, the Regional Climate Impacts Meeting Report and
the Hydrologic Impacts Meeting Report.
The final meeting, on
the Hydrologic Impacts theme will be held in February 2014.
PCIC has three applied research themes: Climate Analysis and Monitoring (CAM), Regional Climate Impacts (RCI) and
Hydrologic Impacts (HI) with clearly defined research plans for the 2015 - 2019 period.
This report outlines the research activities of
the Hydrologic Impacts (HI) Theme for the period of 2015 - 2019.
PCIC's applied research program is organized around three interrelated themes:
Hydrologic Impacts, Regional Climate Impacts, and Climate Analysis and Monitoring.
PCIC has published «
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change on BC Water Resources: Summary Report for the Campbell, Columbia and Peace River Watersheds».
«
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change in the Peace, Campbell and Columbia Watersheds, British Columbia, Canada»
Final results from the first phase of PCIC's
Hydrologic Impacts research program with BC Hydro have been published, the culmination of four years of collaborative work aimed at better understanding the potential effects of climate variability and change on BC water resources.
Rodenhuis, D.R., A.T. Werner, K.E. Bennett, T.Q. Murdock, 2007: Research Plan for
Hydrologic Impacts: Program Definition (2007 — 2010), Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium report, 34 pp.
The aim of
the Hydrologic Impacts (HI) theme at PCIC is to quantify the effect of climate change and climate variability on regional hydrology in order to provide analysis and information relevant to water resources management.
Modelling spatial and temporal variability of
hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada.
In October, we will host the first centred on the Climate Analysis and Monitoring theme followed in November by the Regional Climate Impact theme and then in February 2014 by
the Hydrologic Impacts theme.
PCIC is hosting a three - part series of user engagement meetings structured around PCIC's three applied research themes: Climate Analysis and Monitoring, Regional Climate Impacts and
Hydrologic Impacts.
He has assisted PCIC's
Hydrologic Impacts theme in incorporating glacier models in their hydrological modelling efforts.
Schnorbus, M. A., K. E. Bennett, A. T. Werner, and A. J. Berland, 2011:
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change in the Peace, Campbell and Columbia Watersheds, British Columbia, Canada.
The Hydrologic Impacts theme is concerned with estimating the effects of climate variability and change on water resources using downscaled global climate models and hydrologic models.
Shrestha, R. R., M. A. Schnorbus, A. T. Werner, and A. J. Berland, 2012: Modelling spatial and temporal variability of
hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada.
Coverage spans a wide range of topics, including Ecological Impacts; Advances in Modeling; Sea Level Projections; Extreme Events; Climate Feedback and Sensitivity;
Hydrologic Impact; Effects on Human Health; and Economics and Policy Issues.
Not exact matches
«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial
hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its
impact on climate change.
The Washington assessment is the first to combine such a diverse and detailed set of climate models, fine spatial resolution, and
hydrologic modeling into an integrated climate
impacts assessment.
A complex interplay of climate,
hydrologic and ecosystem processes, and human
impacts influences drought.
Investigates changes in Arctic
hydrologic system, feedback mechanisms, and
impacts on Arctic organisms.
From the Prize Council: «If we are going to talk about hydrology in the 21st century, and the challenges hydrologists face, clearly the overwhelming challenge is to understand
hydrologic variability, and the likely
impact on hydrology of anticipated climate change.
The ones that are most relevant today though are those that affect atmospheric absorption and reflection of radiation, and surface
impacts on either radiative or
hydrologic fluxes.
When referring to the Station
Hydrologic Model Output data retrieved from the website or found otherwise, the source must be clearly stated: Pacific Climate
Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, (Jan. 2014).
When referring to the Gridded
Hydrologic Model Output data retrieved from the website or found otherwise, the source must be clearly stated: Pacific Climate
Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, (Jan. 2014).
No Warranty: The Gridded
Hydrologic Model Output is provided by the Pacific Climate
Impacts Consortium with an open license on an «AS IS» basis without any warranty or representation, express or implied, as to its accuracy or completeness.
With the
impact of climate change, sole reliance on historical
hydrologic weather patterns is no longer a viable forecast for water authorities.
Even though these gains were substantially less than runoff gains during pluvials, additional runoff under drought conditions could help lessen the
impact of predicted climate - driven losses in
hydrologic connectivity important to native fish in the Salt and Verde watersheds [64].
Schnorbus, M., K. Bennett and A. Werner, 2010: Quantifying the water resource
impacts of mountain pine beetle and associated salvage harvest operations across a range of watershed scales:
Hydrologic modeling of the Fraser River Basin.
Many
impacts settings are somewhat tuned to a certain resolution, such as the nested size categorizations of
hydrologic basins down to watershed size, commonly used in
hydrologic modeling.
Hydrologic modelling has been applied to assess the
impacts of projected climate change within three study areas in the Peace, Campbell and Columbia River watersheds of British Columbia, Canada.
Evaluating hydro - climatic
impacts of climate change signals from statistically and dynamically downscaled GCMs and
hydrologic models.
The
Impact of Continuous Living Cover on Soil
Hydrologic Properties: A Meta - Analysis.
Monitoring
Hydrologic and Water Quality
Impacts of Meadow Restoration.
As previous articles in this Special Feature have discussed, warming temperatures, even without reductions in precipitation, will have far - reaching
impacts on
hydrologic sustainability in the Southwest.
For example, nearly all features of the
hydrologic system are now
impacted by the Human System [60] with important feedbacks onto humans, e.g., snowpack decline due to climate change [53] reduces water availability; agricultural processes further affect water availability and water quality [54]; and land - use changes can reduce groundwater recharge [77].
New Publication:
Impacts of climate change in three
hydrologic regimes in British Columbia, Canada
Yohe and colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Industrial Economics Inc say that they are highly confident that
impacts caused by
hydrologic drought — on agriculture and water availability, for example — will be increasingly negative and widespread over time, despite persistent uncertainty about projected precipitation patterns.
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