GC13E:
Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Hydroclimatic Change in Western North America II Posters

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Session ID#: 12877

Session Description:
Water resources in western North America are increasingly vulnerable to drought, increased consumptive water use, and climate change. Water management must meet the challenges of both greater water demands and changing water supplies. Research in areas as diverse as groundwater hydrology, baseflow modeling, land surface feedbacks on runoff, and ocean/atmosphere effects on hydroclimate can help inform water resource management.  Modeling and observational studies, along with paleoclimatic research, continue to improve the basic understanding of hydroclimatic and hydrologic variability, while collaboration with resource managers has resulted in research relevant to planning and management concerns.  Anthropogenic activities add complexity and create an urgency to better understand climatic and anthropogenic impacts on water resources. Recent events such as the California drought, groundwater overpumping, and the drawdown of western reservoirs, all provide a compelling case for an interdisciplinary session addressing these challenges in western North America.
Primary Convener:  Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Stephanie A McAfee, USGS Southwest climate adaptation science center, Reno, United States, Adam Z Csank, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States; University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geography, Reno, United States and Gregory J McCabe Jr, USGS, Denver, CO, United States
Chairs:  Stephanie A McAfee, USGS Southwest climate adaptation science center, Reno, United States, Gregory J McCabe Jr, USGS, Denver, CO, United States and Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Adam Z Csank, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States; University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geography, Reno, United States
Co-Organized with:
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Hydrology, and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • H - Hydrology
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1860 Streamflow [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Monthly Paleostreamflow Reconstruction from Annual Dendrochronologies for Water Systems Analysis (135994)
James Howard Stagge, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, David E Rosenberg, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States, Robert J DeRose, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT, United States and Tammy M Rittenour, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States
A 400-year reconstruction of spring temperatures for the upper Colorado River Basin (120000)
Adam Z Csank, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geography, Reno, United States, Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Gregory T Pederson, USGS, Norther Rocky Mountain Science Center, Bozeman, MT, United States
Conifer Growth Response to Snowpack across an Elevation Gradient in Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (129281)
Kai Lepley, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, & Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Ramzi Touchan, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, David M Meko, University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States, Rochelle Graham, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States and Eylon Shamir, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, United States
Is Soil Development Controlling Ecohydrologic Response to Climate Change in the Southern Cascade and Sierra Nevada Watersheds, CA, USA? (149455)
Scott Devine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Anthony T O'Geen, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Helen E Dahlke, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Mountain Valley Eco-Hydrologic Connectivity in the Great Basin, NV (195785)
Dale A Devitt1, Brian Bird1, Brad F Lyles2, Lynn Fenstermaker1, Richard L Jasoni3, Scotty Strachan4, John Arnone III5, Franco Biondi6, Scott A Mensing7 and Laurel Saito8, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences (DEES), Reno, NV, United States, (4)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (6)University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (7)Univ Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (8)University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Ecosystem Responses to Pacific Storm Track Variability (181947)
Matthew P Dannenberg, University of Iowa, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Iowa City, IA, United States and Erika Wise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography and Environment, Chapel Hill, United States
Warm and Cool Droughts: The Influence of Temperature on Colorado River Flow (156976)
Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Gregory T Pederson, U.S. Geological Survey, Bozeman, MT, United States
Climate Change and the Snowmelt-runoff Relationship in the Upper Rio Grande Basin (152497)
Shaleene B Chavarria, University of New Mexico, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, United States and David S Gutzler, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Observing hydroclimatic variability during the 2012-2015 drought using a Great Basin mountain transect: elevation matters! (125700)
Scotty Strachan1, Scott A Mensing1, Dale A Devitt2, Lynn Fenstermaker3, Brad F Lyles4 and Gregory McCurdy4, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Precipitation variability in the Four Corners region USA from 2002 to 2015 (131783)
Crystal L Tulley-Cordova1, Gabriel J Bowen2, Irving Brady3 and Jerome Bekis3, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geology & Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)Navajo Nation Water Management Branch, Fort Defiance, AZ, United States
Hydrological and management responses to scenarios of climate change in the San Francisco Bay-Delta watershed (136563)
Noah Knowles, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Collin Cronkite-Ratcliff, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Ensembles of 21st Century Colorado River Flow Projections Exhibit Substantial Diversity in Response to Seasonal Hydroclimatic Scenarios (164786)
Stephanie A McAfee, USGS Southwest climate adaptation science center, Reno, United States, Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Gregory J McCabe Jr, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Gregory T Pederson, USGS Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, United States
Predictors of High Streamflow Events in the Fraser River Basin of British Columbia, Canada (192277)
Charles Curry, PCIC, Victoria, BC, Canada; University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada
Variability and Trends in the Timing of the Spring Dry Season in the North American Southwest (139271)
Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, United States, Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Benjamin I Cook, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States and Park Williams, Columbia University, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Current climate variability as a guide to the ‘new normal’: exploring multiyear climate warming impacts in the San Joaquin River basin using an integrated hydrologic model (191883)
James M Gilbert, University of California Santa Cruz & NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Golden, United States and Reed M Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
A simple stochastic rainstorm generator for simulating spatially and temporally varying rainfall (138013)
Michael Bliss Singer, Cardiff University, Water Research Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom; University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, Katerina Michaelides, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Mary Nichols, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mark Almon Nearing, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States

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