According to a new study, due to higher temperatures, higher temperatures have led to a higher temperature of drought and faster evaporation.
“Continental Drying” directed the planet’s overall water to the oceans to such a degree that it has now surpassed the melting ice sheets as the largest factor in the global sea level, found during research.
Land water losses can have a significant impact on the possibility of gaining safe drinking water and the possibility of growing food in some richest regions of the world.
“We use a lot of water to grow food,” said Jay Famiglietti, a professor at the Sustainability School of Arizona State University and one of the authors of the study. “If things do not change, we will see the impact on our food safety and only the availability of our water.”
Conclusions “should be an important concern for the general public, resource managers and decision makers around the world,” the researchers wrote in the study, adding that the identified tendencies “send perhaps a dirty message about the impact of climate change so far”.
“The continents dry, the availability of fresh water is decreasing and the rise of sea level is accelerating,” they wrote.
A study published on Friday in Science Advances has evaluated changes in groundwater sources such as lakes, underground aquifer and moisture in the soil over the last two decades. Researchers found that several factors, including climate change, disrupt the natural Earth’s water cycle, not disturbing how moisture circulates between the Earth, the oceans and the atmosphere.
Researchers used data from a set of four NASA satellites to analyze changes in groundwater accumulation in the last 22 years. The satellites were designed to follow the movement of the Earth’s water, including changes in the ice sheets, glaciers and underground tanks.
For example, researchers found that since 2014 The dry parts of the world are already drying rapidly. These drought -fertilized regions have increased twice as much as California each year, Famiglietti said.
According to the study, in several cases the drought -drawn points expanded to create giant, mega drying regions. One of these areas includes parts of Central America, Mexico, California, Southwest USA, the Lower Colorado River Basin and the southern high plains.
“The main message is that water is actually the main change we see on land and in the ocean,” said NASA’s jet drive laboratories, working in NASA missions where NASA missions were presented in NASA’s missions, scientist scientist who presented in a new study.
The investigation found that every large land mass except Greenland and Antarctica, since 2002. There was an unprecedented drying.
Continental drying is expected to have great consequences for people. According to researchers, three quarters of the world’s population live in countries where fresh water resources are depleted.
Meanwhile, Rising Seas threatens creep in the world’s coastal regions, making them less inhabited and increasing the high pressure caused by extreme storms and floods. In the US, the harsh weather helped to stimulate the insurance crisis in coastal cities, prone to extreme air events.
The connection between sea level rise and the loss of water recorded on the ground is a consequence of the planet’s water cycle thrown into chaos. Many of these changes, such as excessive groundwater, are believed to be permanent – or at least irreversible for thousands or tens of thousands of years, said Alexander Simms, a professor at the University of Santa Barbara University at the University of Santa Barbara.
“If you pull water out of continents, the only place where it has to go is in the ocean,” he said. “The water enters the atmosphere, then 88% of the water on the Earth of that water and enters the ocean.”
Simms said the study fascinates his ability to assess the global extent of these water losses, but he was skeptical about the claim that the loss of water from the continents now surpassed the ice layer as the biggest sea -level carpet factor.
However, Hamlington said the study shows how the movement of water around the planet has a huge impact of pulsation. It also shows that in the future the consequences can be exacerbated if the groundwater is further depleted, fresh water resources shrink and reduce drought conditions.
“This monitoring of groundwater accumulation is a critical piece of puzzle,” he said. “If we can follow that water, if we know where it goes, we can improve our understanding of the future availability of drought, floods and water resources on Earth.”
This article was originally published in nbcnews.com