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  <dc:contributor>Daniel R. Cayan</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Noah Knowles</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2002</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;California's primary hydrologic system, the San Francisco estuary and its upstream watershed, is vulnerable to the regional hydrologic consequences of projected global climate change. Projected temperature anomalies from a global climate model are used to drive a combined model of watershed hydrology and estuarine dynamics. By 2090, a projected temperature increase of 2.1&amp;deg;C results in a loss of about half of the average April snowpack storage, with greatest losses in the northern headwaters. Consequently, spring runoff is reduced by 5.6 km&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;(&amp;sim;20% of historical annual runoff), with associated increases in winter flood peaks. The smaller spring flows yield spring/summer salinity increases of up to 9 psu, with larger increases in wet years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1029/2001GL014339</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Geophysical Union</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Potential effects of global warming on the Sacramento/San Joaquin watershed and the San Francisco estuary</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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