Historical changes in New York State streamflow: Attribution of temporal shifts and spatial patterns from 1961 to 2016

Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate

“…Regional studies also suggest that climate trends have been dominant compared to land use and human water management for explaining trends in hydrological droughts in some regions, for instance in Ethiopia (Fenta et al, 2017), China (Xie et al, 2015), and North America for the Missouri and Colorado basins, as well as in California (Shukla et al, 2015;Udall and Overpeck, 2017;Ficklin et al, 2018;K. Xiao et al, 2018;Glas et al, 2019;Martin et al, 2020;Milly and Dunne, 2020).…”

Water Cycle Changes

“…Section 3.3.2.4 assesses with medium confidence that anthropogenic climate change has altered regional and local streamflows, although a significant trend has not been observed in the global average (Sections 2.3.1.3.6 and 3.3.2.3). Multiple human-induced and natural drivers have been shown to play an important but variable role in observed regional trends of streamflow for several different areas (Fenta et al, 2017;Ficklin et al, 2018;Glas et al, 2019;Vicente-Serrano et al, 2019). For instance, decreasing runoff during the dry season has been observed over the Peruvian Amazon since the 1980s (Lavado et al, 2013;Ronchail et al, 2018).…”

Climate, Irrigation, and Land Cover Change Explain Streamflow Trends in Countries Bordering the Northeast Atlantic

“…Other studies emphasize climate variability and change as the main driver of streamflow trends (Fenta et al, ; Glas et al, ; Xie et al, ). For example, in the United States, most research stresses that climate is the main driver of recent streamflow trends (Brauer et al, ; Cruise et al, ; Ficklin et al, ; Frans et al, ), with the exception of small catchments characterized by large changes in the urban area (Cuo et al, ).…”