Simulated runoff in Oregon-Washington

May 26, 2010 (Last modified Jul 12, 2010)
Created by Dominique Bachelet
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Using the model MC1 Brendan Rogers simulated historical and future runoff associated with changes in vegetation distribution, fire occurrence, carbon stocks under future climate conditions.
The data show decreased runoff under the Hadley (UK GCM) scenario and increased runoff under the CSIRO (Australian GCM) while under MIROC (Japanese GCM) scenario the Olympics and the coast range have increased runoff but the southern Cascades and the Rogue river area show decreased runoff.
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Dominique Bachelet
climate change scientist with Oregon State University

Dominique received her Master’s degree in 1978 in Lille (France) and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Colorado State University with a thesis focused on biogeochemical cycles in the shortgrass prairie. In 1984 she went to U.C. Riverside as a postdoc simulating nitrogen fixing shrubs in the Sonoran desert then...