H080
Hydrology of Arid and Semi-arid Environments

Session ID#: 80490

Session Description:
A significant fraction of the world’s population relies on water from semi-arid basins (e.g., Colorado, the Sahel). Climate change and natural variability in these regions can have huge consequences for the availability of water needed in a variety of uses, including agriculture, health maintenance, and basic subsistence.  Understanding linkages of different components of the hydrologic system is critical for determining and ameliorating impacts on it by land surface changes, climate change, water management, and increased urbanization.

We invite physical, biological, and social scientists as well as engineers to submit abstracts addressing the physical phenomena, the social effects, and engineering solutions affecting the ability to satisfy current and future water needs.  We hope that a summary of current understanding of the hydrological system, and practices involving it, might stimulate the development of water conservation, resilience to climate and weather extremes, and confidence in the future.

Index Terms:

1809 Desertification [HYDROLOGY]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Cecile Penland, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA Boulder, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Assessment of Four areas of Competence in a Hydrology – Fluid Mechanics Course (486735)
Mysore Narayanan, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
 
Dominant Modes of Wintertime Precipitation Variability in arid and semi-arid region of Northwest China (490564)
Lian-Tong Zhou, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
 
Copula-Based Abrupt Variations Detection in the Relationship of Seasonal Vegetation-Climate in the Jing River Basin, China. (498434)
Jing Zhao and Zhiming Han, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China
 
Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storage and its implications for the water cycle (510224)
Jida Wang, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, Chunqiao Song, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Fangfang Yao, Exeter, United Kingdom, James S Famiglietti, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Yongwei Sheng, UCLA Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Glen M MacDonald, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Fanny Brun, Universite de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, Hannes Mueller Schmied, Goethe University Frankfurt, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Institute of Physical Geography, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Richard A Marston, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS, United States and Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
 
Development of a hydrological model for assessing drought and water balance changes in data-poor dryland regions (514793)
Edisson Andres Quichimbo, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom; University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Mark O Cuthbert, Cardiff University, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom, Michael Bliss Singer, Cardiff University, Water Research Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom; University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Daniel E. J. Hobley, Cardiff University, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom and Katerina Michaelides, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
 
Using of regional hydrological modelling under data and water scarcity conditions in Peruvian Pacific catchments for the implementation of operational runoff indices (518276)
Pedro Rau1, Luc Bourrel2, Denis Ruelland3, Waldo Lavado4 and David Labat2, (1)Water Research and Technology Centre CITA, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología UTEC, Lima, Peru, Lima, Peru, (2)UMR 5563 GET, Université de Toulouse – CNRS – IRD – OMP - CNES, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France, Toulouse, France, (3)CNRS, UMR 5569 HydroSciences Montpellier, 300 Avenue du Professeur Emile Jeanbrau, 34095 Montpellier, France, Montpellier, France, (4)Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, SENAMHI, Jirón Cahuide 785, Lima 11, Peru, Lima, Peru
 
Origins and Variability of Extreme Precipitation in the Santa Ynez River Basin of Southern California (520474)
Nina Oakley, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Forest Cannon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Eric Boldt, National Weather Service, Oxnard, United States, John L Dumas, NOAA National Weather Service, Oxnard, CA, United States and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Characteristics of moisture recycling and precipitation source over China-Mongolia arid region (527659)
Ruolin Li1, Qi Feng2, Wei Liu Dr.3 and Chengqi Zhang Dr.1, (1)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)Donggang West Road 320, Chengguan District, Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Evolution of rock cover, surface roughness, and flow velocity on stony soil under simulated rainfall (545245)
Li Li, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Mark Nearing, USDA ARS, Tucson, AZ, United States, Viktor Polyakov, USDA-ARS, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mary Nichols, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
A nation-wide picture of aquifer depletion in Iran: Results from InSAR, gravity and field survey (556601)
Mahdi Motagh, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Mahmud Haghshenas-Haghighi, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
 
Model-based Guidelines for Siting New Water-harvesting Structures in sub-Saharan Africa (561886)
Jessica Abbie Eisma, Purdue University, Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Combining On-demand Processing of Climate and Satellite Data via ClimateEngine.org for Advanced Drought and Natural Resource Monitoring, and Process Understanding in Arid Environments (Invited) (566640)
Justin Huntington1, Katherine Hegewisch2, Britta Daudert3, Charles Morton4, John T Abatzoglou2, Daniel McEvoy4,5 and Tyler Erickson6, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute Reno, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Google, Earth Outreach, Mountain View, CA, United States
 
A Universal Multi-fractal Approach to Assessment of Spatiotemporal Extreme Precipitation over the Loess Plateau of China (575126)
Jianjun Zhang1, Hoshin Gupta2, Guangyao Gao3, Bojie Fu3, Xiaoping Zhang4 and Rui Li4, (1)School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (2)Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
 
Predicting the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Wetted Habitats in Intermittent Streams and its Implications for Threatened Fish Populations (590692)
Hana Moidu, Berkeley, CA, United States, Ross Vander Vorste, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Mariska Obedzinski, California Sea Grant Program; University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Stephanie Carlson, Laguna Beach, CA, United States and Theodore Grantham, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Shadow Effect in the Redistribution of the Infiltration in a Semiarid Zone (594472)
ANA BERENICE Garcia Perez, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Querétaro, Mexico and Enrique Gonzalez-Sosa, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
 
Water Quality Monitoring in Ephemeral Streams Associated with Sediment Transport Mitigation Structures (603169)
Karly Rodriguez, Tech2 Solutions, Los Alamos, United States, Amanda White, Tetra Tech Inc, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Daria Cuthbertson, Tech2 Solutions, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Investigation of Linear Dune Erosion and Lacustral Events in the Simpson Desert, Australia during the Late Quaternary (605801)
Rachel Rose Rotz1, Adam Milewski2, Robert Anthony Craddock3, Alexander M Morgan3 and David Leigh4, (1)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Smithsonian Institution, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, GA, United States
 
Revealing Paleo-Groundwater and Interbasin Flow as Fundamental to Water and Mineral Resource Sustainability on the Arid Altiplano-Puna Plateau (608738)
Brendan J. Moran1, David F Boutt1, Lee Ann Munk2, Patricia Marconi3, Joshua D. Fisher4, Felicity Arengo5 and Diego Frau6, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Alaska Anchorage, Geological Sciences, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)FUNDACION YUCHAN, Salta, Argentina, (4)Columbia University of New York, AC4, The Earth Institute, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, New York, NY, United States, (6)Universidad del Litoral, Instituto Nacional de Limnologia/CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
 
Origins of Snowpack Variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin (623240)
Benjamin Hatchett, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, John T Abatzoglou, University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States and Susan Stillman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
MODFLOW One-Water Hydrologic Flow Model (Version 2) – A MODFLOW-Based Conjunctive Use Simulation Software for Arid and Semi-Arid Regions (626233)
Scott E Boyce1, Randall T Hanson2, Ian M Ferguson3, Wolfgang Schmid4, Wesley Henson5, Thomas Reimann6, Steffen Mehl7, Debra S Curry8 and Marisa M Earll1, (1)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)USGS, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)US Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, United States, (4)CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (5)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, (7)CSU Chico, Chico, CA, United States, (8)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
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