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DOI10.1029/2018WR022816
Climate Elasticity of Low Flows in the Maritime Western US Mountains
Cooper, M. G.1; Schaperow, J. R.2; Cooley, S. W.1,3; Alam, S.2; Smith, L. C.1; Lettenmaier, D. P.1
2018-08-01
发表期刊WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
ISSN0043-1397
EISSN1944-7973
出版年2018
卷号54期号:8页码:5602-5619
文章类型Article
语种英语
国家USA
英文摘要

Summer streamflow is an important water resource during the dry summers in the western United States, but the sensitivity of summer minimum streamflow (low flow) to antecedent winter precipitation as compared with summer evaporative demand has not been quantified for the region. We estimate climatic elasticity of low flow (percent change in low flow divided by percent change in climatic forcing variable) with respect to annual maximum snow water equivalent (E-SWE), winter precipitation (E-PPT), and summer potential evapotranspiration (E-PET) for 110 unmanaged headwater catchments in the maritime western U.S. mountains. We find that vertical bar E-PET vertical bar is larger than vertical bar E-PPT vertical bar and vertical bar E-SWE vertical bar in every catchment studied and is 4-5 times larger than both, on average. Spatial variations in E are dominated by three patterns. First, vertical bar E-PPT vertical bar, vertical bar E-SWE vertical bar, and vertical bar E-PET vertical bar are largest and most variable among semiarid catchments and decrease nonlinearly with increasing values of the humidity index (the ratio of annual precipitation to annual evaporative demand). Second, vertical bar E-PPT vertical bar and vertical bar E-PET vertical bar are lower in snow-dominated catchments than in rain-dominated catchments, suggesting that snow cover reduces the proportional response of low flows to climatic variability. Third, vertical bar E-PPT vertical bar, vertical bar E-SWE vertical bar, and vertical bar E-PET vertical bar are lower in slow-draining catchments than in fast-draining catchments, for which baseflow recession storage coefficients are used to represent the rate at which catchment water storage is translated into streamflow. Our results provide the first comparison of summer low-flow elasticity to PPT versus PET and its spatial variation in the maritime western U.S. mountains.


Plain Language Summary The western U.S. climate is characterized by cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers. Streamflow provides a critical water resource during the dry summers here. The minimum streamflow (low flow) usually occurs in September or October, several months after the mountain snowpack has melted. The magnitude of the low flow sets a lower bound on water supply, especially in systems without surface water storage. However, it is not clear whether the magnitude of the low flow is more strongly controlled by how cold and wet the previous winter was versus how warm and dry the summer was. We quantified the percent change in low flows per 1% change in winter precipitation and summer evaporative demand. We found that percent changes in low flows are 4 to 5 times larger per 1% change in summer evaporative demand than winter precipitation. However, year-to-year variation in evaporative demand is small so the year-to-year variation in low flows is more strongly associated with year-to-year variation in winter precipitation. Our results suggest that low flows are highly vulnerable to small changes in evaporative demand, but more work is needed to understand expected changes in evaporation in a warming climate.


英文关键词drought streamflow baseflow recession snow elasticity evapotranspiration
领域资源环境
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000445451800025
WOS关键词SUMMER LOW FLOWS ; PACIFIC-NORTHWEST ; STREAMFLOW SENSITIVITY ; SIERRA-NEVADA ; SNOWMELT RUNOFF ; CHANGE IMPACTS ; WATER STORAGE ; DROUGHT ; TRENDS ; PRECIPITATION
WOS类目Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/22058
专题资源环境科学
作者单位1.Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Geog, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA;
2.Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Los Angeles, CA USA;
3.Brown Univ, Inst Brown Environm & Soc, Providence, RI 02912 USA
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Cooper, M. G.,Schaperow, J. R.,Cooley, S. W.,et al. Climate Elasticity of Low Flows in the Maritime Western US Mountains[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2018,54(8):5602-5619.
APA Cooper, M. G.,Schaperow, J. R.,Cooley, S. W.,Alam, S.,Smith, L. C.,&Lettenmaier, D. P..(2018).Climate Elasticity of Low Flows in the Maritime Western US Mountains.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,54(8),5602-5619.
MLA Cooper, M. G.,et al."Climate Elasticity of Low Flows in the Maritime Western US Mountains".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 54.8(2018):5602-5619.
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