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Nature Geoscience 1, 665–669 (1 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo315

Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change

Reed M. Maxwell & Stefan J. Kollet

Climate change will have a significant impact on the hydrologic cycle, creating changes in freshwater resources, land cover and land–atmosphere feedbacks. Recent studies have investigated the response of groundwater to climate change but do not account for energy feedbacks across the complete hydrologic cycle.