Climate Change and the Water Cycle
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- Created on: 09-03-24 11:02
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- Climate Change and the Water Cycle
- climate change inputs and outputs
- precipitation - tropical storms due to sea surface temp increase, more rainfall, more flood risk - can also reduce precipitation in some areas
- evaporation - increase and decrease in temperature in different regions will see different trends in evaporation
- climate change stores and flows
- snow and glaciers - increase in melting, ice is breaking off and not reforming
- reservoirs and lakes - not being recharge due to increase in rain
- Lake Chad - drying up impacting ecosystem and residents who rely on its water
- was the 3rd largest water source in Africa but is 1/20 of the size it was 40 years ago
- Lake Chad - drying up impacting ecosystem and residents who rely on its water
- permafrost - when it thaws in summer , percolation and throughflow allows water to leave the ecosystem
- soils - different soils will be affected differently - generally soil moisture will be lost as less water will infiltrate the soil
- climate change inputs and outputs
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