Climate-to-ecosystem integrated modeling in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary: An overview of the CASCaDE project (Part 2—Modeling of Water Quality and Ecosystem Processes)

Lisa Vidergar Lucas1, Fernanda Achete2, James M Bishop3, Larry R Brown4, Laura Dinitz5, Judith Z Drexler6, Theresa Fregoso7, Bruce E Jaffe8, Wim Kimmerer9, Noah Knowles10, Rosanne Martyr-Koller11, Francis Parchaso1, Dano J.A. Roelvink12, A. Robin Stewart1, Kathleen Swanson13, Janet K Thompson1, Tineke Troost14, Mick Van der Wegen12 and Marissa Wulff4, (1)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Vortex Mundus, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (3)R3 Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, United States, (5)Independent, Palo Alto, United States, (6)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (7)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (8)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (9)San Francisco State University - Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, CA, United States, (10)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (11)Independent, Munich, Germany, (12)IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands, (13)San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, (14)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands