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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 3, 期 4, 页码 374-378出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1731
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- UK Department for International Development (DFID) [GA/09F/094]
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs05007] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [bgs05007] Funding Source: UKRI
Groundwater recharge sustains the groundwater resources on which there is global dependence for drinking water and irrigated agriculture(1). For many communities, groundwater is the only perennial source of water. Here, we present a newly compiled 55-year record of groundwater-level observations in an aquifer of central Tanzania that reveals the highly episodic occurrence of recharge resulting from anomalously intense seasonal rainfall. Episodic recharge interrupts multiannual recessions in groundwater levels, maintaining the water security of the groundwater-dependent communities in this region. This long-term record of groundwater storage changes in the semi-arid tropics demonstrates a nonlinear relationship between rainfall and recharge wherein intense seasonal rainfall associated with the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole mode of climate variability(2,3) contributes disproportionately to recharge. Analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 and AR5 multi-model ensembles for the twenty-first century indicates that projected increases in extreme monthly rainfall, responsible for observed recharge, are of much greater magnitude than changes to mean rainfall. Increased use of groundwater may therefore prove a potentially viable adaptation to enhanced variability in surface-water resources and soil moisture resulting from climate change(4-7). Uncertainty in the projected behaviour of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and associated teleconnections remains, however, high(8).
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