GregCocks, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Futurology Negligible Impact On Precipitation From A Permanent Inland Lake In Central Australia https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103913 <-- shared paper “KEY POINTS: • A climate model is used to test the hypothesis that creating a large lake in central Australia would increase rainfall • Locally, surface cooling effects of the lake suppress the formation of precipitation • Regionally, moisture from the lake is exported to other areas but the amount is small compared to natural variability in Australian rainfall..."” #GIS #spatial #mapping #water #waterresources #hydrology #waterstorage #watersecurity #model #modeling #Australia #KatiThanda #LakeEyre #rainfall #precipitation #farming #agriculture #irrigation #climatemodel #evaporation #ET #evaporativecooling #proposal #research #bradfield #waterscheme #diversion #pumping #impact #spatialanalysis
“KEY POINTS: • A climate model is used to test the hypothesis that creating a large lake in central Australia would increase rainfall • Locally, surface cooling effects of the lake suppress the formation of precipitation • Regionally, moisture from the lake is exported to other areas but the amount is small compared to natural variability in Australian rainfall..."” #GIS #spatial #mapping #water #waterresources #hydrology #waterstorage #watersecurity #model #modeling #Australia #KatiThanda #LakeEyre #rainfall #precipitation #farming #agriculture #irrigation #climatemodel #evaporation #ET #evaporativecooling #proposal #research #bradfield #waterscheme #diversion #pumping #impact #spatialanalysis