Sentences with phrase «altered hydrologic»

For many regions, the rapid expansion of irrigation during the twentieth century has significantly altered the hydrologic cycle and energy budget at the land surface.

«It has substantively altered the hydrologic cycle of the region,» he says.

«The consequences are both an altered hydrologic regime — which has implications for farming, urban water use and the environment — as well as degradation of streamwater quality,» he says.

Here Huntington et al. measured how climate change alters hydrologic conditions in New England and affects DOC transport into the Gulf of Maine.

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Surface forcing alters evaporation and the hydrologic cycle, which feeds back upon the aerosol burden through the efficiency of wet deposition.

Absorbing aerosols heat the air, alter regional atmospheric stability and vertical motions, and affect the large - scale circulation and hydrologic cycle with significant regional climate effects.