I believe that I was harassed by my supervisor and others in NWS for over a year after the suspension, related to my concerns on climate and
hydrologic change as that can affect hydrologic modeling which NWS river forecast centers uses for flood and water supply forecasting.
Not exact matches
Keiluweit, assistant professor in UMass Amherst's School of Earth and Sustainability, says the team's next steps include quantifying the amount of anaerobic microsites in different soil ecosystems and assessing how carbon stabilization in them is affected by variables such
as the soil
hydrologic regime, which is expected to
change dramatically due to climate
change.
It is commonly thought that
hydrologic change is driven by precipitation and radiation
changes caused by climate
change, and that
as the land surface adjusts, rising temperatures and lower precipitation will make the planet drier.
I encountered «great difficulties» from Jan of 2000 until July of 2005
as a result of my concerns with climate
change effects on
hydrologic modeling and flood prediction.
I removed
as a federal employee in July of 2005 for objecting to not be able to study or talk about climate and
hydrologic change while at the office.
Also, he should define what he means by «climate
change» in terms of time and space scales, and of what specific societally and environmentally relevant metrics (such
as hydrologic drought; agricultural drought; large basin river floods, etc) he is focusing on.
Dr Lenton (who is also one of the creators of the planetary - boundaries concept) and Dr Watson suggest that energy might be used to
change the
hydrologic cycle with massive desalination equipment, or to speed up the carbon cycle by drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide, or to drive new recycling systems devoted to tin and copper and the many other metals
as vital to industrial life
as carbon and nitrogen are to living tissue.
The same principle may not apply to desertification and
hydrologic changes,
as indicated by the examples in the paper.
The
hydrologic cycle will
change and intensify, leading to
changes in water supply
as well
as flood and drought patterns.
Regarding the
hydrologic cycle, multiple factors operate, including important
changes in atmospheric circulation patterns,
as Chris Colose mentioned.
My comments led to the first of four suspensions issued to me
as result of my trying to research and speak about climate and
hydrologic change in Minnesota and global warming.
Do we really have the understanding and sensitivity in all of our measuring to capture the energy budget
as it
changes form, phase, and location, or are there possibly slow
changes in thermocline depths,
hydrologic cycle speeds, atmospheric elevations, large ocean currents etc, that can receive energy quickly but manifest it
as temperature slowly or even imperceptibly in regard to our ability to capture these
changes?