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1 online resource (358 pages) |
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""MANAGING WATER RESOURCES IN THE WEST UNDER CONDITIONS CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Overview""; ""SHARING WATER RESOURCES""; ""THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY""; ""Implications of Climate Variability for Management""; ""MANAGEMENT RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY""; ""PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN WATER RESOURCE DECISIONMAKING""; ""MANAGING WESTERN WATER UNDER PRESENT VARIABILITY AND FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE""; ""Research, Development, and Institutional Issues""; ""Opportunities for the Bureau of Reclamation"" |
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""3 The Science of Climate Change and Climate Variability""""4 Primer on Climate Change""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE BASIS FOR CONCERN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""THE CLIMATE SYSTEM AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT""; ""HOW MUCH WILL OUR HOUSE WARM UP?""; ""CONSTRAINING POSSIBLE FUTURES THROUGH MODELS""; ""PRESENT GUIDANCE FROM CLIMATE MODELS AND OTHER ARGUMENTS CONCERNING WESTERN WATER""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Climate Change and Climate Variability: The Climate Record""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE POTENTIAL FOR GLOBAL WARMING""; ""THE 1988 DROUGHT""; ""WEATHER VERSUS CLIMATE"" |
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""CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS""""Surface Temperatures""; ""Precipitation""; ""MAJOR FINDINGS FROM THE OBSERVATIONAL RECORD""; ""COMPARISON WITH MODEL RESULTS FOR GREENHOUSE GAS INCREASES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 Climate Change and Climate Variability: The Paleo Record""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""WHAT HAS BEEN FOUND SO FAR FROM THE STUDY OF PAST CLIMATE?""; ""Ocean Sediments""; ""Milankovitch's Four Frequencies""; ""Polar Ice""; ""The Western Climate""; ""Rapid Climate Shifts""; ""TREE RINGS AS HYDROLOGIC INDICATORS""; ""Spatial Patterns of Drought From Tree-Ring Networks"" |
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""Basin-Specific Streamflow Reconstructions""""Uncertainties in Regional Water Supplies""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Levels and Climate Change on Plant Growth, Evapotranspiration, and Water Resources""; ""BACKGROUND: PLANT RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS""; ""DIRECT EFFECTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE ON PHOTOSYNTHESIS, TRANSPIRATION, AND GROWTH OF PLANTS""; ""Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide""; ""Plant Photosynthetic Mechanisms""; ""Plant Growth Responses to Carbon Dioxide""; ""Transpiration Responses to Carbon Dioxide"" |
| Bibliography |
""REFERENCES""""2 Sharing Water Resources with Future Generations""; ""RELATING THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PRESENT GENERATION TO OTHER GENERATIONS AND TO THE NATURAL SYSTEM""; ""PRINCIPLES OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY""; ""AN INTERGENERATIONAL APPROACH TO WATER RESOURCE PROBLEMS""; ""Water Resource Problems with Intergenerational Impacts""; ""Applying Intergenerational Principles to Water Resource Problems""; ""INTERGENERATIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS""; ""STRATEGIES FOR INCORPORATING INTERGENERATIONAL INTERESTS INTO DECISIONS AFFECTING WATER RESOURCES""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES"" |
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""Streamflow Responses to Carbon Dioxide"" |
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Water-supply -- West (U.S.) -- Congresses
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Climatic changes -- West (U.S.) -- Congresses
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Climatic changes
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Water-supply
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West United States
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309584180 |
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0309584183 |
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