Climate Change and Ground Water
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8377074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugo A Loaiciga (0000-0001-5372-0659, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-41 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8306.93103 |
| OpenAlex | W1991901926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article summarizes the theory of climate change and the relationship of climate-change forcing to hydrologic and aquifer processes. It focuses on regional aquifer systems and on the methods to link large-scale climate-change processes to ground-water recharge and to simulate ground-water flow and solute transport in a warmer, 2xCO2 climate. The article reviews methods currently available to generate climate-change forcing and to simulate regional aquifer systems under ensuing hydrologic conditions. In addition, it outlines the development of a methodology to quantify the effects of climate change and of changes in ground-water use by population growth on hydrologic response. An example illustrates a specific procedure and our current capabilities and limitations to assess the potential impacts of a warming climate and population growth on regional-scale aquifer systems. The results indicate that aquifer exploitation strategies must take into account climatic variability and climate-change patterns. During protracted drought, the competition between human and ecological water uses is sharply accentuated. Changes in ground-water use may affect aquifer response more profoundly than climate change associated with modern global warming
Aquifer · Climate change · Climate model · Climatology · Effects of global warming · Forcing (mathematics) · Global warming · Groundwater · Groundwater recharge · Hydrology (agriculture) · Population · Water resources · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Water resources management and optimization
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2015 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |