The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Impacts is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and the natural and anthropogenic factors that cause these changes. Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change: Natural and Human-Induced Impacts brings together recent progress and achievements in large-scale hydrological observations and numerical simulations, specifically in areas such as in situ measurement network, satellite remote sensing and hydrological modeling. Our goal is to extend and deepen our understanding of the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and to shed light on the mechanisms of the changes and their consequences in water resources and human well-being in the context of global change.
Volume highlights include:
- Overview of the changes in the terrestrial water cycle
- Human alterations of the terrestrial water cycle
- Recent advances in hydrological measurement and observation
- Integrated modeling of the terrestrial water cycle
The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes will be a valuable resource for students and professionals in the fields of hydrology, water resources, climate change, ecology, geophysics, and geographic sciences. Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change: Natural and Human-Induced Impacts will also be attractive to those who have general interests in the terrestrial water cycle, including how and why the cycle changes.
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Overview of the Changes in the Terrestrial Water Cycle
1 Macroscale Hydrological Modeling and Global Water Balance
Taikan Oki and Hyungjun Kim
2 Historical and Future Changes in Streamflow and Continental Runoff: A Review
Aiguo Dai
3 Changes in Global Terrestrial Water Cycle: A Review and Synthesis
Qiuhong Tang, Xuejun Zhang, Ming Pan, and Xingcai Liu
Part II: Human Alterations of the Terrestrial Water Cycle
4 Human Induced Changes in the Global Water Cycle
Tian Zhou, Ingjerd Haddeland, Bart Nijssen, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
5 Impacts of Groundwater Pumping on Regional and Global Water Resources
Yoshihide Wada
6 Land Use/Cover Change Impacts on Hydrology in Large River Basins: A Review
Lan Cuo
Part III: Recent Advances in Hydrological Measurement and Observation
7 GRACE-based Estimates of Global Groundwater Depletion
Min-Hui Lo, James Famiglietti, John Reager, Matthew Rodell, Sean Swenson, and Wen-Ying Wu
8 Regional-scale Combined Land-Atmosphere Water Balance Based on Daily Observations in Illinois
Pat J.-F. Yeh
Part IV: Integrated Modeling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle
9 Drivers of Change in Managed Water Resources: Modeling the Impacts of Climate and Socio-economic Changes Using the U.S. Midwest as a Case Study
Nathalie Voisin , Lai-Yung Leung, and Mohamad I. Hejazi
10 Modeling the Role of Vegetation in Hydrological Responses to Climate Change
Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang, and Xuejun Zhang
11 Estimating Virtual Water Contents using a Global Hydrological Model: Basis and Applications
Naota Hanasaki