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AN: A44A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Impact of Global Warming on the Euphrates-Tigris Watershed
AU: * Evans, J P
EM: jason.evans@yale.edu
AF: Yale University, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520 United States
AB: Over the last few decades demand for fresh water from the Euphrates-Tigris watershed has increased substantially, approaching (even exceeding in dry years) the total flow of the system. This situation leaves the area vulnerable to future changes in the water cycle. Here I present some preliminary results of a modeling study investigating the impact of global warming on the water cycle of the Euphrates-Tigris watershed. The region is modeled using MM5 run at 27km grid spacing and 23 levels in the vertical. Boundary conditions for the model are obtained from a CCSM 3 'business as usual' run (IPCC scenario A2) simulating the 21st century. MM5 was run for three five year periods starting in 2000, 2048 and 2095.
DE: 3305 Climate change and variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513)
DE: 3329 Mesoscale meteorology
DE: 3354 Precipitation (1854)
DE: 3355 Regional modeling
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005