Projections of lake water storage are limited by the absence of reliable, long-term, homogenous and spatially resolved hydrologic observations . This uncertainty is reflected in the widely divergent projections in response to future climate changes in individual lakes  . Selecting models that perform well when comparing hindcasted to observed past water storage variation often does little to reduce water storage projection uncertainty . This wide range of potential changes complicates lake management. For information on observed and projected changes in the global water cycle and hydrological regimes for streams, lakes, wetland, groundwater and their implications on water quality and societies, see Chapter 4, this report, and . For the role of weather and climate extremes on the global water cycle, see .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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