Skip to main content

Application of synthetic scenarios to address water resource concerns: A management-guided case study from the Upper Colorado River Basin

Dates

Publication Date

Citation

Stephanie A.McAfee, Gregory T Pederson, Connie A.Woodhouse, and Gregory J McCabe, 2017, Application of synthetic scenarios to address water resource concerns: A management-guided case study from the Upper Colorado River Basin: Climate Services.

Summary

Abstract (from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880717300924): Water managers are increasingly interested in better understanding and planning for projected resource impacts from climate change. In this management-guided study, we use a very large suite of synthetic climate scenarios in a statistical modeling framework to simultaneously evaluate how (1) average temperature and precipitation changes, (2) initial basin conditions, and (3) temporal characteristics of the input climate data influence water-year flow in the Upper Colorado River. The results here suggest that existing studies may underestimate the degree of uncertainty in future streamflow, particularly under moderate temperature and precipitation changes. [...]

Contacts

Attached Files

Communities

  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • Southwest CASC

Associated Items

Tags

Categories
Organization
Water, Coasts and Ice
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather
Science Themes
Types

Provenance

Data source
Input directly

Additional Information

Citation Extension

journalClimate Services
parts
typeVolume
value8
typePages
value26-35

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...