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Climate Change and Western Water Management Curt Brown, Director - Research and Development

Climate Change and Western Water Management Curt Brown, Director - Research and Development Climate Change Workshop 2008 North Platte, NE May 21. 348 Reservoirs. 245 Million acre-feet of water storage. 254 Diversion dams. 16,000 Miles of canals. $9 Billion annual agricultural benefits.

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Climate Change and Western Water Management Curt Brown, Director - Research and Development

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  1. Climate Change and Western Water Management Curt Brown, Director - Research and Development Climate Change Workshop 2008 North Platte, NE May 21

  2. 348 Reservoirs 245 Million acre-feet of water storage 254 Diversion dams 16,000 Miles of canals $9 Billion annual agricultural benefits M&I benefits to more than 31 million people 58 Hydropower facilities powering over 6 million homes 308 public recreation areas visited by more than 90 million people each year More than $12 billion avoided flood damages since 1959

  3. Snowmelt Timing Stewart et al. 2004

  4. Variability in Projections 1Colorado River THE PAST THE FUTURE

  5. Natural Hydroclimate Monthly-Mean Precipitation, Temp, & Runoff Drought cycles Extreme Events Changes?

  6. Water Demand human and vegetation Power Demand System Capacity Water and Power Supply Size and Timing of flood control space; Cold-Pool Assets; Changes?

  7. Drinking Water Quality Environment Aquatic Temps Instream Flows Changes?

  8. Delta conditions Levee Stability Seawater Intrusion Changes?

  9. Climate Change and Western Water Group (C-CAWWG) Goal is to develop a coordinated interagency R&D plan: (1) steered by user needs, (2) incorporating expert review, (3) delivering R&D products to users, and (4) obtaining user feedback to steer next research steps.

  10. Climate Change and Western Water Group ….Spanning the Hydrologic Cycle “Understanding and Predicting Short and Long-term Climate Variations” “Western Water Manager” “Surface Water, Ground Water, and Aquatic Species Sciences” Coordinating Office NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division Coordinating Office Reclamation R&D Office Coordinating Office USGS Rocky Mountain Science Center Climate Change and Western Water Group (CCAWWG)

  11. C-CAWWG WorkshopDenver, ColoradoFebruary 2008

  12. Examples of User Priorities • Region-specific Literature Summaries • Communicating uncertainties associated with climate change • Predicting extreme events in a changing climate • Downscaled data at finer resolutions

  13. Downscaled climate projections • USBR – U. of Santa Clara – Lawrence Livermore Lab • dataset (http://gdo-dcp.ucllnl.org/downscaled_cmip3_projections/).

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