Climate Change and Hydrology/Water Resources
[Global Studies] [Regional and
Country Studies] [Extreme Weather] [Miscellaneous Hydrology
Studies]
Extreme Weather
General Studies
Cowell, Ophelia. 2000. Gathering Storm: The human cost
of climate change. Friends of the Earth International: Amsterdam.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/gathering_storm.pdf.
Vellinga, P. and W. J. van Verseveld. 2000. Climate Change
and Extreme Weather Events. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF):
Gland, Switzerland. http://panda.org/downloads/climate_change/xweather.pdf.
Francis, David and Henry Hengeveld. 1998. Extreme Weather
And Climate Change. Environment Canada: Ottawa.
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/saib/climate/Climatechange/ccd_9801_e.pdf.
Floods
Mirza, M. Monirul Qader, R. A. Warrick, and N. J. Ericksen.
2003. "The Implications of Climate Change on Floods
of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in Bangladesh,"
Climatic Change, Vol. 57, No. 3, April, pp. 287-318. [ABSTRACT]
Schnur, Reiner. 2002. "Climate science: The investment
forecast," Nature, 31 January, Vol. 415, pp. 483 -
484.
Milly, P. C. D., R. T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne, and T. L.
Delworth. 2002. "Increasing risk of great floods in
a changing climate," Nature, Vol. 415, 31 January,
pp. 514 - 517.
Mirza, M. Monirul Qader. 2002. "Global warming and
changes in the probability of occurrence of floods in Bangladesh
and implications," Global Environmental Change, Vol.
12, No. 2, July, pp. 127-138. [ABSTRACT]
Baxter, P. J., I. Moller, T. Spencer, R. J. Spence, and
S. Tapsellin. 2001. "Flooding and climate change,"
in: Department of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate
Change in the UK.
Available at:
http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/.
Reynard, N. S., C. Prudhomme, and S. M. Crooks. 2001. "The
Flood Characteristics of Large U.K. Rivers: Potential Effects
of Changing Climate and Land Use," Climatic Change,
Vol. 48, No. 2-3, February, pp. 343-359. [ABSTRACT]
Schreider, S. Yu., D. I. Smith, and A. J. Jakeman. 2000.
"Climate Change Impacts on Urban Flooding," Climatic
Change, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, October, pp. 91-115. [ABSTRACT]
Droughts
Karoly, David, James Risbey, and Anna Reynolds. 2003. Global
Warming Contributes to Australia's Worst Drought. WWF Australia:
Sydney. http://panda.org/downloads/climate_change/wwf2002drought_ut3s.pdf.
Joubert, A. M., S. J. Mason, J. S. Galpin. 1996. "Droughts
Over Southern Africa in a Doubled-CO2 Climate," International
Journal of Climatology, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 1149-1156.
[ABSTRACT]
Rind, David. 1995. "Drying Out the Tropics,"
New Scientist, May 6, pp. 36-40.
Rosenzweig, C., and D. Hillel. 1993. "The Dust Bowl
of the 1930s: Analog of greenhouse effect in the Great Plains?,"
Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 22, pp. 9-22. [ABSTRACT]
Tropical Cyclones
Walsh, K., and A.B. Pittock. 1998. "Potential Changes
in Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, and Extreme Rainfall Events
as a Result of Climate Change," Climatic Change, Vol.
39, No. 2-3, July, pp. 199-213. [ABSTRACT]
Royer, J.-F., F. Chauvin, B. Timbal, P. Araspin and D.
Grimal. 1998. "A Gcm Study of the Impact of Greenhouse
Gas Increase on the Frequency of Occurrence of Tropical
Cyclones," Climatic Change, Vol. 38, No. 3, March,
pp. 307-343. [ABSTRACT]
Knutson, Thomas R., Robert E. Tuleya, and Yoshio Kurihara.
1998. "Simulated Increase of Hurricane Intensities
in a CO2-Warmed Climate," Science, February 13, Vol.
279, No. 5353, pp. 1018-1020.
Storms
Baxter, P. J., B. E. Lee, T. A. Wyatt, and R.J. Spence.
"Windstorms and climate change," in: Department
of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate Change in the
UK.
Available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/.
Dorland, C., R. S. J. Tol, and J. P. Palutikof. 1999. "Vulnerability
of the Netherlands and Northwest Europe to Storm Damage
under Climate Change," Climatic Change, Vol. 43, No.
3, November, pp. 513-535. [ABSTRACT]

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