Climate-to-ecosystem integrated modeling in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary: An overview of the CASCaDE project (Part 1—Modeling of physical processes)

Noah Knowles1, Daniel R Cayan2, Collin Cronkite-Ratcliff3, Michael D Dettinger4, Alan L Flint5, Lorraine E Flint6, Theresa Fregoso7, John J Helly2, Bruce E Jaffe8, Herman Kernkamp9, Lisa Vidergar Lucas10, Rosanne Martyr-Koller11, Tara Morgan-King12, David W Pierce13, Dano J.A. Roelvink14, David H Schoellhamer15, Michelle A Stern6, Arthur van Dam9, Sander van der Pijl9, Mick Van der Wegen16, Julia Vroom9 and Scott A Wright17, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)USGS, Sacramento, CA, United States, (6)US Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States, (7)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (8)USGS Pacific Science Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (9)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (10)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (11)Independent, Munich, Germany, (12)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (13)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (14)IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands, (15)USGS, Portland, OR, United States, (16)UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands, (17)U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States