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Response of evapotranspiration and water availability to the changing climate in Northern Eurasia |
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| Authors: | Yaling Liu Qianlai Zhuang Zhihua Pan Diego Miralles Nadja Tchebakova David Kicklighter Jiquan Chen Andrey Sirin Yujie He Guangsheng Zhou Jerry Melillo |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA 2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 3. Rocky Mountain Research Station, U. S. Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, USA |
| Abstract: | We introduce a probabilistic framework for vulnerability analysis and use it to quantify current and future vulnerability of the US water supply system. We also determine the contributions of hydro-climatic and socio-economic drivers to the changes in projected vulnerability. For all scenarios and global climate models examined, the US Southwest including California and the southern Great Plains was consistently found to be the most vulnerable. For most of the US, the largest contributions to changes in vulnerability come from changes in supply. However, for some areas of the West changes in vulnerability are caused mainly by changes in demand. These changes in supply and demand result mainly from changes in evapotranspiration rather than from changes in precipitation. Importantly, changes in vulnerability from projected changes in the standard deviations of precipitation and evapotranspiration are of about the same magnitude or larger than those from changes in the corresponding means over most of the US, except in large areas of the Great Plains, in central California and southern and central Texas. |
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