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Are the effects of vegetation and soil changes as important as climate change impacts on hydrological processes?

Kabir Rasouli, John W. Pomeroy, Paul H. Whitfield

Hydrology and earth system sciences · 2019

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Abstract. Hydrological processes are widely understood to be sensitive to changes in climate, but the effects of concomitant changes in vegetation and soils have seldom been considered in snow-dominated mountain basins. The response of mountain hydrology to vegetation/soil changes in the present and a future climate was modeled in three snowmelt-dominated mountain basins in the North American Cordillera. The models developed for each basin using the Cold Regions Hydrological Modeling platform employed current and expected changes to vegetation and soil parameters and were driven with recent and perturbed high-altitude meteorological observations. Monthly perturbations were calculated using the differences in outputs between the present- and a future-climate scenario from 11 regional climat

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.5194/hess-23-4933-2019
Catalogue ID
SNmokbvzk1-w2vefs
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