Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3624405l&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 24, CiteID L24405
Physics
Geophysics
3
Global Change: Climate Variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Global Change: Land/Atmosphere Interactions (1218, 1843, 3322), History Of Geophysics: Hydrology, Hydrology: Climate Impacts, Hydrology: Evapotranspiration
Scientific paper
Previous studies of the recent drought in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) have noted that low rainfall totals have been accompanied by anomalously high air temperatures. Subsequent studies have interpreted an identified trend in the residual timeseries of non-rainfall related temperature variability as a signal of anthropogenic change, further speculating that increased air temperature has exacerbated the drought through increasing evapotranspiration rates. In this study, we explore an alternative explanation of the recent increases in air temperature. This study demonstrates that significant misunderstanding of known processes of land surface - atmosphere interactions has led to the incorrect attribution of the causes of the anomalous temperatures, as well as significant misunderstanding of their impact on evaporation within the Murray-Darling Basin.
Franks Stewart W.
Kavetski Dmitri
Lockart Natalie
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