``... snow pack has decreased and been observed to melt earlier in the calendar year... the observed changes in
the hydrological components... can be explained well by anthropogenic forcing (green house gases and aerosols) alone.»
Not exact matches
A big
component of this looming difficulty is global warming, mostly due to the effects on
hydrological cycles.
``... since uncertainty is a structural
component of climate and
hydrological systems, Anagnostopoulos et al. (2010) found that large uncertainties and poor skill were shown by GCM predictions without bias correction... it can not be addressed through increased model complexity....
Further developments of RCMs as a Regional Earth System Exploration tool, by linking the traditional meteorological models to
hydrological, biogeophysical and socio - economic
components, can further develop their usefulness in practice.
Sea ice with its strong seasonal and interannual variability (Fig. 1) is a very critical
component of the Arctic system that responds sensitively to changes in atmospheric circulation, incoming radiation, atmospheric and oceanic heat fluxes, as well as the
hydrological cycle1, 2.
Therefore, decadal
hydrological prediction requires an understanding of both the externally forced
component and the prediction skill of internally generated decadal hydroclimate variability.
One resolves in this manner the short - term
components of the climate response, such as
hydrological perturbations associated with changes in lapse rate.