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Projected evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-delta-river system in a century of climate change [1]

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.

Publication Date: 
21/09/2011
James E. Cloern [2], Noah Knowles [3], Larry R. Brown & et al [4]
PLoS ONE [5]
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Climate Change [6], Rivers [7], California [8], Hydrology [9], Estuaries [10], Climate Impacts [11], Water Resources [12], Climate Adaptation [13], Water Salinisation [14], Sea Level Rise [15], Sedimentation [16]
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[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-adaptation
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-salinisation
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sea-level-rise
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sedimentation