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Climate changes propagated by regional and global phenomena have immediate and long term potential to affect the integrity of watersheds and the ecosystems they contain. Numerous studies have amassed evidence describing the nature of the earth's continuing changes of climate from around the globe, from the tropics to the polar regions, and from a panoply of disciplines: astronomy, chemistry, climatology, ecology, geology, hydrology and oceanography. Investigators seek not only to increase knowledge of global climate changes but to improve understanding of the exchange of energy, water, greenhouse and trace gases between the atmosphere, the earth's surface and the biosphere. This paper provides a review of current literature demonstrating that climate changes have always been a given. Although all the relationships between the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere are not fully understood, it is evident that man has the capability both to mitigate or to aggravate the intensity of these effects. We need to rely on improving water resources data applications to better understand environmental variability in the watershed context.

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Published: 01/01/1994 ISBN(s): 0898677734 Number of Pages: 10File Size: 1 file , 520 KB