The hydrological cycle and its influence on climate
Abstract
The uncertainties in assessing the effects of global-scale perturbations to the climate system are due primarily to an inadequate understanding of the hydrological cycle-the cycling of water in the oceans, atmosphere and biosphere. Overcoming this problem necessitates new ways of regarding a field traditionally divided amongst several disciplines, as well as new instrumentation and methods of data collection.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- October 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1038/359373a0
- Bibcode:
- 1992Natur.359..373C