Changes in Surface Water Supply Across Africa with Predicted Climate Change

@article{deWit2006ChangesIS,
  title={Changes in Surface Water Supply Across Africa with Predicted Climate Change},
  author={Maarten de Wit and Jacek Maciej Stankiewicz},
  journal={Science},
  year={2006},
  volume={311},
  pages={1917 - 1921}
}
Across Africa, perennial drainage density as a function of mean annual rainfall defines three regimes separated by threshold values of precipitation. This nonlinear response of drainage to rainfall will most seriously affect regions in the intermediate, unstable regime. A 10% decrease in precipitation in regions on the upper regime boundary (1000 millimeters per year) would reduce drainage by 17%, whereas in regions receiving 500 millimeters per year, such a drop would cut 50% of surface… 
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