Depending on how the intensification of the global water cycle affects individual lake water budgets, the amount of water stored in specific lakes may increase, decrease or have no substantial cumulative effect . The magnitude of hydrological changes that can be assuredly attributed to climate change remains uncertain . Attribution of water storage variation in lakes due to climate change is facilitated when such variations occur coherently across broad geographic regions and long time scales, preferably absent of other anthropogenic hydrological influences . There is increasing awareness that climate change contributes to the loss of small temporary ponds which cover a greater global area than lakes .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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