GC22A:
Climate and the Intersects of Water, Energy, and Land Use I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kathy A Hibbard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Richland, WA, United States and Tom Wilson, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kathy A Hibbard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Richland, WA, United States
Co-conveners:  Tom Wilson, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States and Kathy A Hibbard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Kathy A Hibbard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Richland, WA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change on the Operations and Future Development of the U.S. Electricity System
Robin L Newmark1, Stuart Michael Cohen1, Kristen Averyt2, Jordan Macknick1, James Meldrum2 and Patrick Sullivan1, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (2)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
10:35 AM
 
Climate Change and Future U.S. Electricity Infrastructure: the Nexus between Water Availability, Land Suitability, and Low-Carbon Technologies
Jennie Rice1, Todd Halter1, Mohamad Issa Hejazi2, Erik Jensen1, Lu Liu2, Jarrod Olson3, Pralit Patel2, Chris R Vernon1, Nathalie Voisin3 and Nino Zuljevic1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (3)PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States
10:50 AM
 
Exploring the energy-water-food-climate nexus for the Indian Economy in 2030
Farzad Taheripour, Thomas W Hertel and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
11:05 AM
 
Climate change vulnerability of global hydropower generation
Fabio Farinosi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; University of Venice, Venice, Italy, Enrica De Cian, FEEM, Venice, Italy and Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Energy Requirements by the Water Sector in the Southwestern US: Past, Present, and Future
Kristen Averyt1, David N Yates2 and James Meldrum1, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Denver, CO, United States
11:35 AM
 
Land Use Change Impacts to Flows and Hydropower at the Southern Fringe of the Brazilian Amazon: A Regional, Empirical Study of Land-Water-Energy Nexus Dynamics
Morgan C Levy, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Sally E Thompson, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States and Avery Cohn, Tufts University, The Fletcher School, Medford, MA, United States
11:50 AM
 
Regional Analysis of Energy, Water, Land and Climate Interactions
Vincent Carroll Tidwell, Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Kristen Averyt, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert C Harriss, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Boulder, CO, United States, Kathy A Hibbard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, Robin L Newmark, NREL, Golden, CO, United States, Steven K Rose, Electric Power Research Institute Paolo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Elena Shevliakova, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States and Tom Wilson, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States
12:05 PM
 
The Northeastern United States Energy-Water Nexus: Climate Change Impacts and Alternative Water Management Strategies for the Power Sector
Ariel Miara1, Jordan Macknick2, Charles J Vorosmarty3, Stuart Michael Cohen2 and Bernice Rosenzweig4, (1)CUNY City College, Environmental Crossroads Initiative, New York, NY, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (3)CCNY-Environ Crossroads Initi, New York, NY, United States, (4)CUNY Environmental Crossroads, New York, NY, United States