Climate-Change Effects on Water Availability
Climate-Change Effects on Water Availability
Quantifying the hydrologic impacts of climate and land-cover change is critical for understanding future freshwater availability. To assess the impacts of climate and land-cover change on future water resources, the USGS Pacific Islands Water Science Center estimates groundwater recharge using projected climate conditions and land-cover scenarios.
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Effects of Drought and Cloud-Water Interception on Wildfire Hazard in Hawaiʻi
Understanding the effects of drought and cloud-water interception on wildfire hazard is critical to Hawai‘i’s water-resource managers, farmers, ranchers, and forest, watershed, and wildfire managers for developing adaptive management strategies. Identifying areas of increased wildfire hazard is also important for developing strategic monitoring programs to help assess and predict the effects of...