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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2009  
         
  Article:   CLIMATIC CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES.

Authors:  G. PANDI.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

Climatic Change and Water Recources. Water resource has a constant amount, but its spatial-temporal distribution on Earth’s surface is highly modified by climatic changes. Genetic factors of water resources – the rainfall and temperature – have significatively been modified within last decades, and the phenomenon will not stop in the future. Consequently, water resources stocked as ice cap, glaciers and snow will be diminishing. Water on continents – running water, lakes and phreatic waters - would be changed from both as amount and quality. The level of Planetary Ocean will rise, and the characteristics of the seawater are changed. All those changes would be reflected by modification of average values, as well as frequency and amplitude of extreme hydrical phenomena. The landscape components – abiotic, biotic and anthropic would be affected by these changes.

Keywords: climatic changes, water resources, continental waters, solid water, Planetary Ocean, extreme hydrical phenomena.

 
         
     
         
         
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