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Climate-induced pumping

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Groundwater resources are directly affected by climate variability via precipitation, evapotranspiration and recharge. Analyses of US and India trends reveal that climate-induced pumping indirectly influences groundwater depletion as well.

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Figure 1: Groundwater-supported irrigated agriculture on the northern High Plains aquifer, Nebraska, USA.

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  1. Jason J. Gurdak is in the Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA,

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Gurdak, J. Climate-induced pumping. Nature Geosci 10, 71 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2885

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