Decline of the world's saline lakes

WA Wurtsbaugh, C Miller, SE Null, RJ DeRose… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Many of the world's saline lakes are shrinking at alarming rates, reducing waterbird habitat
and economic benefits while threatening human health. Saline lakes are long-term basin …

[HTML][HTML] Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium

FC Ljungqvist, A Piermattei, A Seim, PJ Krusic… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
To place recent hydroclimate changes, including drought occurrences, in a long-term
historical context, tree-ring records serve as an important natural archive. Here, we evaluate …

Water development, consumptive water uses, and Great Salt Lake

SE Null, WA Wurtsbaugh - Great Salt Lake biology: A terminal Lake in a …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Great Salt Lake (GSL) covers 5500 km 2 (2100 mi 2) at its unimpacted elevation
and is the eighth largest saline lake in the world. Its highly productive food web supports …

Increasing extreme events in the central Himalaya revealed from a tree-ring based multi-century streamflow reconstruction of Karnali River Basin

NP Gaire, Z Zaw, A Bräuning, B Sharma, YR Dhakal… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Karnali River is one of the major transboundary rivers of the Nepalese central
Himalaya and a major tributary of the Ganges River. In order to investigate regional …

Hydrological Extremes in the Upper Yangtze River Over the Past 700 yr Inferred From a Tree Ring δ18O Record

W An, J Li, S Wang, C Xu, X Shao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing global warming has a strong influence on regional hydrological cycles. The upper
reaches of the Yangtze River (UYR) are highly vulnerable to extreme hydrological droughts …

Colorado River water supply is predictable on multi-year timescales owing to long-term ocean memory

Y Chikamoto, SYS Wang, M Yost, L Yocom… - … earth & environment, 2020 - nature.com
Skillful multi-year climate forecasts provide crucial information for decision-makers and
resource managers to mitigate water scarcity, yet such forecasts remain challenging due to …

Coherent streamflow variability in monsoon Asia over the past eight centuries—Links to oceanic drivers

HTT Nguyen, SWD Turner… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Monsoon Asia region is home to ten of the world's biggest rivers, supporting the
lives of 1.7 billion people who rely on streamflow for water, energy, and food. Yet a …

Suwannee River flow variability 1550–2005 CE reconstructed from a multispecies tree-ring network

GL Harley, JT Maxwell, E Larson, HD Grissino-Mayer… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Understanding the long-term natural flow regime of rivers enables resource managers to
more accurately model water level variability. Models for managing water resources are …

Increased Variability of Thailand's Chao Phraya River Peak Season Flow and Its Association With ENSO Variability: Evidence From Tree Ring δ18O

C Xu, BM Buckley, P Promchote… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We present a statistically robust reconstruction of Thailand's Chao Phraya River peak
season streamflow (CPRPF) that spans the 202 years from 1804 to 2005 CE. Our …

Multiscale temporal variability and regional patterns in 555 years of conterminous US streamflow

M Ho, U Lall, X Sun, ER Cook - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The development of paleoclimate streamflow reconstructions in the conterminous United
States (CONUS) has provided water resource managers with improved insights into …