Sie können Bookmarks mittels Listen verwalten, loggen Sie sich dafür bitte in Ihr SLUB Benutzerkonto ein.
Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Vulnerability of water availability in India due to climate change: A bottom‐up probabilistic Budyko analysis
Beteiligte:
Singh, Riddhi;
Kumar, Rohini
Erschienen:
American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2015
Erschienen in:
Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (2015) 22, Seite 9799-9807
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1002/2015gl066363
ISSN:
0094-8276;
1944-8007
Entstehung:
Anmerkungen:
Beschreibung:
AbstractQuantifying the dependence of future water availability on changing climate is critical for water resources planning and management in water stressed countries like India. However, this remains a challenge as long‐term streamflow data are scarce, and there are significant uncertainties regarding future climate change. We present a bottom‐up probabilistic Budyko framework that estimates the vulnerability of available water to changing climate using three hydroclimatic variables: long‐term precipitation, potential evapotranspiration, and actual evapotranspiration. We assimilate these variables within a probabilistic Budyko framework to derive estimates of water availability and associated uncertainty. We then explore a large range of possible future climates to identify critical climate thresholds and their spatial variation across India. Based on this exploratory analysis, we find that southern India is most susceptible to changing climate with less than 10% decrease in precipitation causing a 25% decrease in water availability.