H31L
More Effective Use of Hydroclimatic Forecasts for Decision Making in Water Resources Planning and Management I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3011 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, MI, United States and Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Chairs:  Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States
08:00
Developing a Climate Service: Using Hydroclimate Monitoring and Forecasting to Aid Decision Making in Africa and Latin America (Invited) (61101)
Eric F Wood, Justin Sheffield, Colby K Fisher and Nathaniel Chaney, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
08:17
Seasonal Hydrologic Predictability: Sources and Limitations (Invited) (83517)
Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
08:34
Understanding institutional constraints and preferences influencing the development and use of seasonal water supply forecasts (Invited) (59800)
Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
08:51
A Climate Service Prototype for the Hydropower Industry: Using a Multi-Model Approach to Improve Seasonal Forecasts of the Spring Flood Period in Sweden. (Invited) (84116)
Kean Lars Foster, Lund University, Water Resources Engineering, Lund, Sweden; Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
09:08
Development and Use of the Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast System by the National Weather Service to Support the New York City Water Supply (78522)
Robert Shedd, NOAA/NWS/Northeast River Forecast Center, Taunton, MA, United States, Seann M Reed, National Weather Service, Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center, State College, PA, United States and James Porter, New York City Dept of Environmental Protection, Grahamsville, NY, United States
09:21
From Potential to Practice: How Weather and Climate Forecasts Can Be Effectively Used in Water Resources Management Decision Making (72802)
Majid Shafiee-Jood and Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
09:34
Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts for African Basins (75502)
Aleix Serrat-Capdevila1, Juan B Valdes1, Sungwook Wi2, Tirthankar Roy1, Jason B Roberts3, Franklin R Robertson3 and SERVIR Water Africa Arizona Team (SWAAT) Project, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
09:47
Using a High-Resolution Ensemble Modeling Method to Inform Risk-Based Decision-Making at Taylor Park Dam, Colorado (80456)
Michael Mueller, University of Colorado at Boulder - CU, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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