H083
Prediction of Precipitation and Water Availability in the US West
Session ID#: 160590
Session Description:
There is an ongoing need for reliable, actionable precipitation and water resource predictions useful for planning and water management in the US Western Region. Changes in the interactions of weather, water, and climate have made such predictions even more central for water resources management, and increasingly critical on subseasonal and longer timescales. The sources of water in this region are particularly subject to extreme spatial and temporal variability. The prediction problem encompasses multiple research communities including atmosphere, land, and ocean modeling, and interactions between these systems. This session seeks presentations studying the sources of predictability of precipitation and water availability in this region, model component improvements for subseasonal and longer timescale predictions, and the effect of climate change on predictions and predictability. In addition, presentations on recent or desired improvements to observations and monitoring systems, or model outputs needed and usable by water managers and planners are welcome.
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Index Terms:
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1854 Precipitation [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Mark A Olsen, NOAA, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research/Weather Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners: Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Jessie Carmen, NOAA, Weather Program Office, Washington DC, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Christine Bassett, FedWriters/NOAA, NOAA/OAR/Weather Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Quantifying the Predictability of Coastal Hydroclimate Conditions from Large-scale Climate Drivers (1096125)
Xiaodong Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States and Ning Sun, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Investigating the Hydrologic Responses to Climate Change: The case of the Feather River Watershed in California. (1163353)
Tibebe Belete Tigabu, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Ate Visser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States, Tariq Kadir, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, Shalamu Abudu, California Department of Water Resources, Modeling Support Branch, Bay-Delta Office, Sacramento, United States, Cameron-Smith Philip, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Helen E Dahlke, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Projections of climate change impacts on Middle Rio Grande surface water indicate declining water availability (1182835)
Alex S Mayer, University of Texas at El Paso, Dept. of Civil Engineering/Center for Environmental Resource Management, El Paso, TX, United States, Robyn Holmes, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, United States, David S Gutzler, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Luis Garnica Chavira, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
Headwater Reservoir Management Must Consider Hydrological Supply and Agricultural Demand In a Future With Less Snowpack (1201935)
Beatrice Gordon, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, Newsha K Ajami, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christine Albano, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Gabrielle Boisrame, Desert Research Institute Las Vegas, Henderson, United States, Rosemary W H Carroll, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
