High Resolution Climate Modeling of the Water Cycle over the Contiguous United States Including Potential Climate Change Scenarios

Roy Rasmussen1, Kyoko Ikeda2, Changhai Liu3, David Gochis4, Fei Chen5, Michael J Barlage5, Aiguo Dai6, Jimy Dudhia7, Martyn P Clark3, Ethan D Gutmann8, Yanping Li9 and Headwater's team, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (8)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada