The Changing Importance of Winter Rains to Annual Precipitation Totals in Florida.

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The Changing Importance of Winter Rains to Annual Precipitation Totals in Florida. Peter Waylen and Youliang Qiu

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The Changing Importance of Winter Rains to Annual Precipitation Totals in Florida. Peter Waylen and Youliang Qiu. SANTA FE RIVER near Fort White. (1627 sq.km) High Springs Precipitation. 1949 -1986. 1. Input = Output Precipitation = Runoff +/- Evap. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The Changing Importance of Winter Rains to Annual Precipitation Totals

in Florida.Peter Waylen

andYouliang Qiu

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SANTA FE RIVER nearFort White. (1627 sq.km)

High Springs Precipitation.1949 -1986

Input = OutputPrecipitation = Runoff +/- Evap. +/- ΔStorageP - R = (E +/- ΔS +/- ΔGw)

Seasonal Evapo-Transpiration rates

Dry = CoolE declines

Dry = WarmE increases

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Winter Winter

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Historic RecordsGridded Centroid

MONTHLY PRECIPITATION DATA SETS

1/8th° Gridded-data set 1949 -2000www.hydro.washington.edu/Lettenmaier/Data/GriddedMaurer, E.P., A.W. Wood, J.C. Adam, D.P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen, 2002, A Long-Term Hydrologically-Based Data Set of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States.J. Climate 15, 3237-3251.

National Climate Data Center 1900 - 2000

TarponSprings

St. Leo

Bartow

FortMyers

Ocala

Federal Point

JacksonvilleTallahassee

Appalachicola

Pensacola

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Mean WinterPrecipitation (mm)

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South6:1

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1 0

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PERCENTAGE OF MEAN ANNUALPRECIPITATION OCCURRING

IN WINTER.1949 - 2000

Escambia R.

Santa Fe R.

Blackwater Crk.

Fisheating Crk..Selected Streamflow Sites

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Calendar Month

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25Escambia R.Santa Fe R.Blackwater Crk.Fisheating Crk.

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Linear Trends in Sum m er TotalsG ridded Data (1949-2000).

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Linear Trends in W interTota lsG ridded Data (1949-2000).

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Linear Trends in W interTota lsG ridded Data (1949-2000).

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Significance

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LINEAR TRENDS INSEASONAL PRECIPITATION

TOTALS

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Linear Trends in W inter as ProportionG ridded Data (1949-2000).

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Linear Trends in W inter as P roportionG ridded Data (1949-2000).

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Slope (proportion/yr)

LINEAR TRENDS IN THEPROPORTION OF ANNUAL

PRECIPITATION IN THE WINTER

Significance

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COLD PHASE ENSO

NEUTRAL PHASE ENSO

WARM PHASE ENSO

Proportion of annual precipitation duringwinter under variousENSO phases.

Gridded data

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Differences in Proportionof annual precipitation

During winterWarm phase - Cold phases.

Gridded data

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APPALACHICOLA1900 - 2000

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Ocala

Fort MyersSt. Leo

Cold 11.8, 4.3Neutral 17.4, 6.6Warm 25.9, 9.7

Cold 18.1, 6.3Neutral 26.5, 7.5Warm 35.0, 9.1

Bartow

Cold 17.3, 5.2Neutral 25.1, 7.9Warm 31.3, 7.3

Cold 22.1, 6.6Neutral 29.3, 7.4Warm 35.3, 8.0

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Pensacola

Cold 32.8, 8.1Neutral 37.1, 8.0Warm 42.9, 7.2

Tallahassee

Tarpon Springs Jacksonville

Cold 22.0, 5.7Neutral 29.1, 8.2Warm 36.4, 8.3

Cold 18.3, 6.4Neutral 26.7, 7.3Warm 35.5, 9.8