Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions

By Tim Barnett, J. Adam, Dennis P. Lettenmaier. Nature, 2005

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Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “Recent studies indicate that livelihoods are undergoing rapid social-economic and environmental changes (Barnett et al., 2005; Chaudhary et al., 2007; Xu et al., 2009).”
Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim? (2008, neutral): “13 Alpine glaciers are in near-global retreat [72, 73].”
Water and life from snow: A trillion dollar science question (2017, background): “About one sixth of the world’s population (1.2 billion people) relies on snowmelt water for agriculture and human consumption [Barnett et al., 2005], while virtually all of the world’s population benefits from the climate services provided by snow.”
The Airborne Snow Observatory: Fusion of scanning lidar, imaging spectrometer, and physically-based modeling for mapping snow water equivalent and snow albedo (2016, background): “…these properties in controlling volume and timing of runoff, themountain snowpack remains poorly quantified around the globe (Bales et al., 2006) (Barnett et al., 2005), leaving runoff and climate models poorly constrained and our physical understanding of mountain snowmelt driven systems…”
Expanding the role of reactive transport models in critical zone processes (2017, background): “…cycle, including changes in evapotranspiration, rainfall abundance, precipitation patterns, shifts in snow and ice melting, and a change in the frequency of extreme events (Barnett et al., 2005; Bindoff et al., 2013; Chattopadhyay and Hulme, 1997; Jung et al., 2010; Rosenzweig and Neofotis, 2013).”
Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries (2009, background): “Climate change is likely to cause earlier season peak flows and possible reductions in flow, attributable to reduced snowfall and melting glaciers (Barnett et al. 2005).”
Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization (2010, background): “The effects of warming are expected to be particularly marked in cold high altitude/latitude systems (Barnett et al. 2005; Wrona et al. 2006; Brown et al. 2009; Milner et al. 2009) owing to the strong linkages between climate, cryospheric processes (e.”
Water and economic development : The role of variability and a framework for resilience (2006, background): “Changes in streamflow are likely to be small in comparison to current natural variability, except in basins where snowmelt is an important component of runoff (Barnett et al. , 2005).”
Vulnerability of alpine stream biodiversity to shrinking glaciers and snowpacks (2007, background): “Negative glacier mass-balance is frequently attributed to a warmer climate, leading to major shifts in water sourcing of alpine streams with glacier- and snow-melt reductions (Barnett et al., 2005), proportionally greater groundwater contributions (Brown et al.”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “…effects of climate change have been addressed explicitly in running waters, yet most predictions suggest these ecosystems are especially vulnerable (Barnett et al., 2005; Heino et al., 2009; Ledger et al., 2013a,b; Milly et al., 2005; Parmesan and Yohe, 2003; Vörösmarty et al., 2010; Zwick,…”
First passage time statistics of Brownian motion with purely time dependent drift and diffusion (2010, background): “Snowmelt represents one of the paramount sources of freshwater for many regions of the world, and is sensitive to both temperature and precipitation fluctuations [33–38].”