Vulnerability of coastal aquifers to groundwater use and climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 342-345

  Ferguson, Grant ^a   Gleeson, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROGEOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SALINE INTRUSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

EID: 84860265359     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1413     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. Milly, P. C. D., Dunne, K. A. & Vecchia, A. V. Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate. Nature 438, 347-350 (2005). (Pubitemid 41643949)
2. Vorosmarty, C. J., Green, P., Salisbury, J. & Lammers, R. B. Global water resources: Vulnerability from climate change and population growth. Science 289, 284-288 (2000). (Pubitemid 30469903)
3. Moore, W. S. Large groundwater inputs to coastal waters revealed by 226Ra enrichments. Nature 380, 612-614 (1996). (Pubitemid 3044503)
4. Small, C. & Nicholls, R. J. A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones. J. Coast. Res. 19, 584-599 (2003). (Pubitemid 37029403)
5. Post, V. E. A. Fresh and saline groundwater interaction in coastal aquifers: Is our technology ready for the problems ahead? Hydrogeol. J. 13, 120-123 (2005).
6. FitzGerald, D. M., Fenster, M. S., Argow, B. A. & Buynevich, I. V. Coastal impacts due to sea-level rise. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 36, 601-647 (2008). (Pubitemid 351883486)
7. Barlow, P. & Reichard, E. Saltwater intrusion in coastal regions of North America. Hydrogeol. J. 18, 247-260 (2010).
8. IPCC Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis (eds Solomon, S. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007).
9. EPA National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change 97 (EPA Office of Water, 2008).
10. Masterson, J. P. & Garabedian, S. P. Effects of sea-level rise on ground water flow in a coastal aquifer system. Ground Wat. 45, 209-217 (2007). (Pubitemid 46339113)
11. Webb, M. D. & Howard, K. W. F. Modeling the transient response of saline intrusion to rising sea-levels. Ground Wat. 49, 560-569 (2011).
12. Werner, A. D. & Simmons, C. T. Impact of sea-level rise on sea water intrusion in coastal aquifers. Ground Wat. 47, 197-204 (2009).
13. Loáiciga, H. A., Pingel, T. J. & Garcia, E. S. Sea water intrusion by sea-level rise: Scenarios for the 21st century. Ground Wat. 50, 37-47 (2012).
14. Postel, S. L., Daily, G. C. & Ehrlich, P. R. Human appropriation of renewable fresh water. Science 271, 785-788 (1996).
15. Rodell, M., Velicogna, I. & Famiglietti, J. S. Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India. Nature 460, 999-1002 (2009).
16. Wada, Y. et al. Global depletion of groundwater resources. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L20402 (2010).
17. Strack, O. D. L. A single-potential solution for regional interface problems in coastal aquifers. Wat. Resour. Res. 12, 1165-1174 (1976).
18. Gleeson, T., Marklund, L., Smith, L. & Manning, A. H. Classifying the water table at regional to continental scales. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L05401 (2011).
19. CIESIN Gridded Population of the World Version 3 (GPWv3): Population Density Grids (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, 2005); available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw.
20. Fan, Y., Miguez-Macho, G., Weaver, C. P., Walko, R. & Robock, A. Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 1. Water table observations and equilibrium water table simulations. J. Geophys. Res. 112, D10125 (2007).
21. USDA-NRCS, USGS & EPA Watershed Boundary Dataset for the United States (2010); available at http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov.
22. Wessel, P. & Smith, W. H. F. A global, self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resolution shoreline database. J. Geophys. Res. 101, 8741-8743 (1996).
23. Sanford, W. & Pope, J. Current challenges using models to forecast seawater intrusion: Lessons from the eastern shore of Virginia, USA. Hydrogeol. J. 18, 73-93 (2010).
24. Gleeson, T. et al. Mapping permeability over the surface of the Earth. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L02401 (2011).
25. Reilly, T. E. & Goodman, A. S. Analysis of saltwater upconing beneath a pumping well. J. Hydrol. 89, 169-204 (1987). (Pubitemid 17530996)
26. Gleick, P. H. et al. The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (Island, 2009).
27. Döll, P. Vulnerability to the impact of climate change on renewable groundwater resources: A global-scale assessment. Environ. Res. Lett. 4, 035006 (2009).
28. Anderson, W. P. Jr Aquifer salinization from storm overwash. J. Coast. Res. 18, 413-420 (2002).
29. Vorosmarty, C. J. et al. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467, 555-561 (2010).
30. Rockstrom, J. et al. A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461, 472-475 (2009).