Climate Water Project

The Climate Water Project Substack explores the relationship between land management, vegetation, and the water cycle in addressing climate change. It discusses the impact of land degradation on rain patterns, the interconnectedness of ecosystems, the role of the small water cycle, and the importance of restoring landscapes for climate mitigation.

Climate Change Water Cycle Restoration Land Management and Degradation Ecosystem Interconnectedness Rainfall and Flooding Patterns Soil and Vegetation in Climate Mitigation Hydrological Principles Climate Modeling and Weather Forecasting

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Web of water

216 implied HN points • 15 Jun 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Ecology Biodiversity
  1. The interconnectedness of plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms impact the climate through the water cycle
  2. Understanding self-regulation patterns of ecology and atmosphere can aid in climate and ecosystem restoration
  3. Exploring the concept of a 'water web' can help illuminate the interactions and interdependencies in ecosystems and climate systems

How the small water cycle impacts climate change

216 implied HN points • 09 Mar 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Global Warming
  1. Restoring our landscapes can reduce floods, droughts, and global warming by increasing precipitation recycling.
  2. Decrease in soil quality leads to less rain absorption, causing floods and droughts.
  3. The larger the magnitude of the small water cycle, the less global warming and more carbon is sequestered, aiding in climate change mitigation.
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Portraits of water

157 implied HN points • 11 Feb 23
  1. The post discusses creating diagrams and memes to spread awareness about water-related issues.
  2. The author is open to suggestions for drawings to capture different aspects of water.
  3. Readers are encouraged to share the pictures with attribution to IG @climatewaterproject or the newsletter.

How does rain turn into floods? A chaos theory perspective.

157 implied HN points • 07 Apr 23
🔬 Science Climate
  1. Different landscapes affect how rain turns into floods, with vegetation leading to less correlated rates of runoff.
  2. Study of river runoff patterns suggests chaotic behavior, where small changes in rain amount could lead to significantly different runoff levels.
  3. River floods and earthquakes exhibit similar power scaling laws, suggesting fractal behavior in river flow sizes.

In search of a foundational set of water principles

117 implied HN points • 27 Feb 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Ecology Sustainability Climate Science
  1. The water cycle is complex and requires integrating knowledge from various sciences and methodologies.
  2. The set of water principles aims to simplify and highlight the most important interactions in the water cycle.
  3. Understanding the connections between groundwater, surface water, and land cover is crucial for managing water resources effectively.

Possible states the earth can evolve to

117 implied HN points • 27 Apr 23
🔬 Science Climate Ecosystems Physics
  1. There are different stable states that the ecosystem+hydrological system can evolve to, given large enough perturbations.
  2. Vegetation affects the climate and vice versa, leading to different stable states like forests or grasslands.
  3. The earth can have metastable states with ice or more vegetation, flipping between them due to factors like sunlight and noise in the climate system.

Part II. The quest to figure out the origin of rain: weather in digital worlds

0 implied HN points • 08 Aug 23
🔬 Science Climate Weather Models Land use
  1. Air behaves like a fluid and follows laws of fluid dynamics, crucial for weather forecasting and climate modeling.
  2. Adding the water cycle to simulations was complex due to phase changes of water, but approximations were used to model convection and rain interaction with land.
  3. Research shows that land plays a significant role in precipitation recycling, affecting rain patterns globally, and maps have been created to illustrate this relationship.