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Projected Evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System in a Century of Climate Change

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2011

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Cloern, James E., Knowles, Noah, Brown, Larry R., Cayan, Daniel, Dettinger, Michael D., Morgan, Tara L., Schoellhamer, David H., Stacey, Mark T., van der Wegen, Mick, Wagner, R. Wayne, and Jassby, Alan D., 2011, Projected Evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System in a Century of Climate Change: PLoS ONE, v. 6, iss. 9, e24465 p.

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Background Accumulating evidence shows that the planet is warming as a response to human emissions of greenhouse gases. Strategies of adaptation to climate change will require quantitative projections of how altered regional patterns of temperature, precipitation and sea level could cascade to provoke local impacts such as modified water supplies, increasing risks of coastal flooding, and growing challenges to sustainability of native species. Methodology/Principal Findings We linked a series of models to investigate responses of California's San Francisco Estuary-Watershed (SFEW) system to two contrasting scenarios of climate change. Model outputs for scenarios of fast and moderate warming are presented as 2010–2099 projections of [...]

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Added to ScienceBase on Fri Apr 19 13:03:28 MDT 2013 by processing file <b>Plankton Dynamics in Tidal Estuaries.xml</b> in item <a href="https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/504216b7e4b04b508bfd3343">https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/504216b7e4b04b508bfd3343</a>

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