H51T:
Understanding the Extent and Impacts of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change on Hydrology I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Ben Livneh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ben Livneh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Andrea Gaughan, University of Louisville, Dept. of Geography and Geosciences, Louisville, KY, United States and Brian Buma, University of Alaska Southeast, Forest Ecosystem Ecology, Juneau, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
The Climate-Population Nexus in the East African Horn: Emerging Degradation Trends in Rangeland and Pastoral Livelihood Zones
Narcisa GABRIELA Pricope1, Gregory J Husak2, Chris C Funk2 and David Lopez-Carr2, (1)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
8:15 AM
 
Disentangling the driving mechanism of streamflow trends using runoff senstivity to land use and climate change.
Nicholas L Silverman1, Johnnie N Moore2 and Marco P Maneta1, (1)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)Moore Geosciences, LLC, Missoula, MT, United States
8:30 AM
 
Advanced Land use Classification Considering Intra-annual Cropping patterns and Urbanization processes as a Contribution to Improve Knowledge base for Water Management.
Navneet Kumar1, Bernhard Tischbein1 and Mirza Kalimuddin Beg2, (1)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (2)Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology, Raipur, India
8:45 AM
 
Impacts of insect-related forest mortality on hydrologic partitioning and forest productivity in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA
Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Characterizing real-time forest disturbance in a dynamic land surface model with implications for operational streamflow forecasting using WRF-Hydro
Aubrey L Dugger, David J Gochis, James L McCreight and Wei Yu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
9:15 AM
 
Hydrological Footprints of Urban Developments in the Lake Simcoe Watershed, Canada: A Combined Paired-Catchment and Change Detection Modeling Approach
Stephen Kayode Oni1, Martyn N Futter2, James M Buttle3 and Peter Dillon3, (1)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Forest Ecology and Management, Umeå, Sweden, (2)Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
9:30 AM
 
Global Patterns of Annual Actual Evapotranspiration with Land-Cover Type: Emerging Patterns from New Databases
Shannon M Sterling and Sarah M Ambrose, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
9:45 AM
 
Looking for Water in the Woods: Quantifying the Potential for Forest Management to Increase Regional Water Yield
Subodh Acharya1, David A Kaplan2, Daniel L Mclaughlin1,3 and Matthew J Cohen1, (1)University of Florida - UF, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida - UF, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
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