A System Dynamics Approach to Modeling Future Climate Scenarios: Quantifying and Projecting Patterns of Evapotranspiration and Precipitation in the Salton Sea Watershed

Table 4

Salton Sea (SS) climate sensitivity analysis: one-way ANOVA descriptives.

(I) trial	𝑁	Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error	95% Confidence interval for mean		Minimum	Maximum
					Lower bound	Upper bound
SS elevation^a
1	100	−235.38	0.00	0.00	−235.38	−235.38	−235.39	−235.37
2	100	−233.38	0.01	0.00	−233.38	−233.37	−233.38	−233.37
3	100	−237.09	0.01	0.00	−237.09	−237.08	−237.09	−237.08
Total	300	−235.28	1.52	0.09	−235.45	−235.11	−237.09	−233.37
SS salinity^a
1	100	59,292	5	1	59,291	59,293	59,277	59,306
2	100	56,533	5	1	56,532	56,534	56,521	56,546
3	100	61,903	6	1	61,902	61,905	61,891	61,916
Total	300	59,243	2,196	127	58,993	59,492	56,521	61,916
SS elevation^b
1	100	−235.36	1.00	0.10	−235.55	−235.16	−238.18	−233.23
2	100	−233.40	1.77	0.18	−233.75	−233.05	−236.52	−227.72
3	100	−237.06	0.90	0.09	−237.24	−236.88	−238.98	−234.35
Total	300	−235.27	1.97	0.11	−235.49	−235.05	−238.98	−227.72
SS salinity^b
1	100	59,025	1,450	145	58,737	59,312	56,073	63,380
2	100	56,335	2,245	225	55,890	56,781	49,703	60,731
3	100	61,598	1,415	141	61,317	61,879	57,634	64,712
Total	300	58,986	2,768	160	58,671	59,300	49,703	64,712

Climate sensitivity analysis: ^adeterministic model results; ^bstochastic model results.
(I) trial: 1 = baseline, 2 = +10%, 3 = −10%.
Elevation units = feet above sea level.
Salinity = mg/L.