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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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194 Engineering Response to Climate Change
Another term that leads to many of the same conclusions as the water-
shed perspective is “systems,” sometimes expressed as systems thinking,
systems engineering, and so on, and appears in the Corps of Engineers’
denition above.
5.3 Hydrometeorologic Cycle
As the atmosphere warms, its ability to hold water vapor will increase at an
approximate rate of 5%–6% per °C (Rosenberg et al. 1989). Higher air tem-
peratures will also increase surface evaporation. To maintain equilibrium in
the moisture budget, the precipitation rate must also increase (MacCracken
and Luther 1985).
The global average increases in ...
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