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Climate, climatic change, and water supply / Panel on Water and Climate, Geophysics Study Committee, Geophysics Research Board, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Water and Climate.
- Series:
- Studies in geophysics.
- Studies in geophysics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water resources development--United States--Congresses.
- Water resources development.
- Water-supply--United States--Congresses.
- Water-supply.
- Climatic changes--United States--Congresses.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : National Academy of Sciences, 1977.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- STUDIES IN GEOPHYSICS
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Overview and Recommendations
- INTRODUCTION
- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- HYDROLOGY AND WATER-RESOURCE DESIGN
- CLIMATIC VARIABILITY
- LONG-RANGE FORECASTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES
- CLIMATIC CHANGE, DELIBERATE AND INADVERTENT
- CLIMATIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS
- THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF PREDICTING FUTURE WATER DEMAND
- THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF WATER SHORTAGES
- WATER LAW AND CLIMATIC CHANGE
- CONTRASTING PROBLEM AREAS-THE NORTHEAST AND THE SOUTHWEST
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND NOTES
- I CLIMATOLOGY
- 1 Water Supply and the Future Climate
- WHAT IS CLIMATIC CHANGE?
- PHYSICAL FACTORS CAUSING CLIMATIC CHANGE
- CLIMATIC MODELS AS ESTIMATORS OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
- FOOD-CLIMATE CONSIDERATIONS
- RELATION TO WATER-SUPPLY ISSUES
- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- REFERENCES
- 2 Interpretation of Past Climatic Variability from Paleoenvironmental Indicators
- TRANSFER-FUNCTION ANALYSIS
- RESULTS OF STUDIES
- LONG-TERM PALEOCLIMATIC INFERENCES (GLOBAL AND HEMISPHERIC SCALE)
- Major Ice Ages in the Past Billion Years
- Glacial and Interglacial Stages of the Quaternary
- Postglacial Climatic History
- REGIONAL EVALUATION OF PALEO-HYDROLOGIC PHENOMENA
- Southwestern United States
- Northeastern United States
- CONCLUSIONS
- II SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS
- 3 Methods for Estimating and Projecting Water Demands for Water-Resources Planning
- DEFINITION AND USE OF THE TERM "DEMAND"
- STATE OF THE ART OF FORECASTING DEMANDS
- DEMAND ESTIMATING AND FORECASTING TECHNIQUES FOR AGRICULTURAL (IRRIGATION) WATER
- WATER DEMANDS IN THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES
- INDUSTRIAL WATER DEMANDS
- THERMOELECTRIC POWER WATER DEMAND
- COMMERCIAL DEMANDS FOR WATER
- HOUSEHOLD (RESIDENTIAL) WATER DEMANDS.
- USE OF DEMAND FUNCTIONS IN WATER-RESOURCES SYSTEMS PLANNING
- THE ROLE OF WATER-USE INFORMATION IN FORECASTING FUTURE WATER DEMANDS
- IMPACT OF CLIMATIC VARIABILITY AND CHANGE TO FORECASTING DEMANDS
- WATER-USE FORECASTS FOR 2000 AND 2020
- 4 Climatic Change and Water Law
- WATER RIGHTS
- PRIOR APPROPRIATION
- EASTERN WATER RIGHTS
- GROUNDWATER
- WATER ORGANIZATIONS
- GOVERNMENTAL, PUBLIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
- FEDERAL POWERS AND PROGRAMS
- RESERVED RIGHTS, INDIAN RIGHTS
- STATE'S RIGHTS AND POWERS
- ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC RIGHTS
- LEGAL CHANGE TO MEET CLIMATE CHANGE
- NATURE OF LEGAL ADJUSTMENTS
- THE DIRECTION OF LEGAL CHANGE
- 5 Identification of Economic and Societal Impacts of Water Shortages
- TYPES OF WATER SHORTAGES
- ACTIONS TAKEN DURING SHORTAGES
- TYPES OF CONSUMERS
- IMPACTS OF SHORTAGES
- ECONOMIC EFFECTS
- SOCIAL EFFECTS
- EXAMINATION OF CASE STUDIES
- DALLAS, TEXAS
- YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
- TRENTON, NEW JERSEY
- DELAWARE RIVER BASIN
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- III WATER-RESOURCE DESIGN AND PRACTICE
- 6 Water-Resource Systems Planning
- CLIMATIC CHANGE
- WATER-RESOURCE SYSTEM DESIGN
- THE 3 R'S: ROBUSTNESS, REGRET, AND RESILIENCE
- CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN WATER-RESOURCES PLANNING
- 7 Climatic Change and Water Supply: How Sensitive is the Northeast?
- THE REGIONAL SETTING
- EVALUATION OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
- EXAMPLES OF METROPOLITAN WATER-SUPPLY PROBLEMS
- EVALUATION OF METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLIES
- A SIMULATION APPROACH
- CONCLUSION
- 8 Impact on the Colorado River Basin and Southwest Water Supply
- GEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION
- CURRENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK
- SURFACE-WATER RUNOFF
- WATER AND ENERGY IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN.
- FLOW AUGMENTATION
- EFFECTS OF A DROUGHT ON THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN
- REFERENCES.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610246380
- 9781280246388
- 1280246383
- 9780309567893
- 0309567890
- OCLC:
- 326712748
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