Precipitation variability
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Climate Change and the Hydrologic Cycle: Emerging Patterns, Process Alterations, and Implications for Sustainable Water Resources Management
Abstract: Climate change is profoundly altering the global hydrologic cycle, affecting the movement, storage, and quality of water across atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic systems. Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, increasing atmospheric evaporative demand, and intensifying hydroclimatic extremes are reshaping key hydrological processes, including evapotranspiration, soil moisture dynamics, runoff generation, streamflow regimes, groundwater recharge, and water quality. This review synthesizes recent advances in understanding the impacts of climate change on the …
Published in International Journal of Atmosphere · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 34–54 Read article