1-11: Global Hydrological Cycle

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Mountain Snowpack Melting Earlier in the Western US
  
  
• Changes in Global Water Cycle
  
  
• Changes in Arctic Ice Measured by Satellite
  
  
• Ice-Loss from Antarctica Accelerates Sea-Level Rise
  
  
• Antarctic Ice Accelerating Toward the Sea
  
  
• Vanishing of the Greenland Ice Sheet Due to Global Warming Raises Sea Level by 20 Feet (7 Meters)
  
  
• Climate Change in the Western US Leads to Less Snow and Earlier Snowmelt
  
  
• Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown Underway.
  
  
• Changing the Hydrological Cycle in US Midwest
  
  
• Global Water Crisis Increases
  
  
• Melting Glaciers and Sea-Level Rise
  
  
• Changes in Evaporation in a Warming Climate
  
  
• Alaska Glaciers Contributing to Sealevel Rise
  
  
• Increased Freshwater in the Ross Sea
  
  
• More Extreme Events in a Changing Climate
  
  
• Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
  
  
• Impact of Aerosol on the Hydrological Cycle
  
  
• Accelerated warming observed in the South Polar region
  
  

Websites

• Creeping Dead Zones
  
  
• Global Annual Total Precipitation
  
  
• Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Home Page
  
  
• National Climatic Data Center
  
  
• USGS Water Resources Information
  
  
• National Ground Water Association
  
  

Additional References

• Jackson, R.B., and Co-Authors, 2005: Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. Science, 310, 1944-1947.
  
  
• Smith, L.C., Y. Sheng, G.M. MacDonald, and L.D. Hinzman, 2005: Disappearing Arctic lakes. Science, 308, 1429.
  
  
• Stocker, T.F. and C.C. Raible, 2005: Water cycle shifts gear. Nature, 434, 830-833.
  
  
• GLACE Team, 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305, 1138-1140.
  
  
• Gao, R.S., 2004: Evidence that nitric acid increases relative humidity in low-temperature cirrus clouds. Science, 303, 516-520.
  
  
• Yang, F., A. Kumar, M. E. Schlesinger, and W. Wang, 2003: Intensity of hydrological cycles in warmer climates. J. Climate, 16, 2419-2423.
  
  
• Nolan, M., 2003: New DEMs may stimulate significant advancements in remote sensing of soil moisture. EOS, 84, 233-237.
  
  
• Debenedetti, P. G., and H. E. Stanley, 2003: Supercooled and glassy water. Physics Today,, June 2003 40-46.
  
  
• United Nations, 2003: Water for People: Water for Life. The United Nations Water Development Report. UNESCO Publishing. 576 pp.
  
  
• Boyle, E., 2002: Oceanic salt switch. Science, 298, 1724-1725.
  
  
• Adkins, J. F., K. McIntyre, and D. P. Schrag, 2002: The salinity, temperature, and d^18O of the glacial deep ocean. Science, 298, 1769-1773.
  
  
• Milly, P. C. D., R. T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne, and T.L. Delworth, 2002: Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate. Nature, 415, 514-517.
  
  
• Stone, R., 2002: Caspian ecology teeters on the brink. Science, 295, 430-433.
  
  
• Ramanathan, V., P. J. Crutzen, J.T. Kiehl, and D. Rosenfeld, 2001: Aerosols, climate, and the hydrological cycle. Science, 294, 2119-2124.
  
  
• Johnson, N., C. Revenga, and J. Echeverria, 2001: Managing water for people and nature. Science, 292, 1071-1072.
  
  
• Peterson, D., et. al., 1995: The role of climate in estuarine variability. Amer. Sci., 83, 58-67.
  
  
• Shuttleworth, William James. 1994: Large-scale experimental and modeling studies of hydrological processes. Ambio, 23, 82-86
  
  
• Lau, K. M., C. H. Sui, and W. K. Tao, 1993: A preliminary study of the tropical water cycle and its sensitivity to surface warming. Bull. of the Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 1313-1321.
  
  
• Chahine, Moustafa T., 1992: The hydrological cycle and its influence on climate. Nature, 359, 373-381.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, 1990: Climate Change, The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Cambridge University Press. p. 47-51, 75-79.
  
  
• Irrigated land, technical atlas, WFS. (Download Adobe Acrobat Reader )
  
  
• Water utilization intensity, technical atlas, WFS.