Water resource impacts of climate change in southwestern Bulgaria |
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Authors: | Heejun Chang C Gregory Knight Marieta P Staneva Deyan Kostov |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA;(2) Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;(3) Pennsylvania State University (Altoona Campus), Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA, USA;(4) Center for Integrated Regional Assessment, Pennsylvania State University, USA;(5) Independent Scholar, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria |
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Abstract: | This study assesses the regional impact of climate change on runoff in a mountainous region of southwestern Bulgaria. A GIS-based
distributed hydrologic model and two climate change scenarios – HadCM2 and CCC – were employed for years around 2025 and 2085.
Results from both scenarios demonstrate the basin's sensitivity of runoff to climate change, which produce significant spatial
and temporal changes in the basin's water yield with maximum runoff shift into early spring and further decreases in summer
runoff. There could be no reduction in mean annual runoff, except under the Hadley scenario by 2085. Changes in the magnitude
of mean monthly and peak flow are associated with early snowmelt and a reduction in snow cover in spring. Increases in spatial
variability of runoff reflect the basin's complex physiographic characteristics. The increase of spatial and temporal variability
in runoff points to different strategies for future water resource management.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | Bulgaria climate change runoff spatial and temporal variability GIS |
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