Preparing for climatic change: the water, salmon, and forests of the Pacific Northwest
Mote PW, Parson EA, Hamlet AF, Keeton WS, Lettenmaier D, Mantua N, Miles EL, Peterson D, Slaughter R, Snover AK. 2003. Preparing for climatic change: the water, salmon, and forests of the Pacific Northwest. Climatic Change. 61(1–2):45-88
From the Abstract: "The impacts of year-to-year and decade-to-decade climatic variations on some of the Pacific Northwest's key natural resources can be quantified to estimate sensitivity to regional climatic changes expected as part of anthropogenic global climatic change. Warmer, drier years, often associated with El Nino events and/or the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, tend to be associated with below-average snowpack, streamflow, and flood risk, below-average salmon survival, below-average forest growth, and above-average risk of forest fire. During the 20th century, the region experienced a warming of 0.8 degrees C. ... Our understanding of past climate also illustrates the responses of human management systems to climatic stresses, and suggests that a warming of the rate projected would pose significant challenges to the management of natural resources."
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Mote, Philip; Parson, Edward; Hamlet, Alan; Keeton, William; Lettenmaier, Dennis; Mantua, Nathan; Miles, Edward; Peterson, David; Slaughter, Richard; Snover, Amy
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Ecosystem Studies, forest resources, Global Climate Change, PWR-toolkit, salmonid fisheries, Water Resources