U42A:
Integration of Climate, Hydrology, Social Science, and Water Management: Connecting Hydroclimate Models with Stakeholder Need

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Session ID#: 13694

Session Description:
Constructing accurate estimates of regional climate change impacts, particularly on water resources, remains a formidable challenge. A major and poorly understood component of these predictions is the two-way interaction between the human and Earth systems. For instance, feedbacks involving water management and land use are largely neglected in present climate modeling efforts, and work is underway to understand the magnitude of these interactions. Several recent workshops and reports have identified a need for “co-production” of knowledge simultaneously addressing the information needs of decision-makers while advancing scientific understanding. This session offers an opportunity to discuss the frameworks which must be in place to encourage dialogue between stakeholders and academics, and the technical developments which support increased interconnectedness between hydrologic, climate, and human systems. Speakers will present modelling tools which link these disparate systems, and address the challenges they encounter and opportunities they anticipate as they attempt to bridge this disciplinary divide.
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth Elliott McClenny, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Reed M Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and Alyssa DeVincentis, Formation Environmental, Sacramento, United States
Chairs:  Marielle Pinheiro1, Rich Pauloo1, Scott Devine1 and Ellie White2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States(2)USGS Integrated Information Dissemination Division, Data Science Branch, Reston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth Elliott McClenny, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Insights on the energy-water nexus through modeling of the integrated water cycle (Invited) (120237)
L. Ruby Leung, Hong-Yi Li, Xiao Zhang, Wenhua Wan, Nathalie Voisin and Guoyong Leng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
The novel use of climate information in water utility planning (Invited) (153674)
David N Yates, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States
SimBasin: A serious gaming framework for integrated and cooperative decision-making in water management (Invited) (160750)
Hector Angarita1,2, Joanne Craven3, Francesca Caggiano3 and Gerald Corzo4, (1)Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Ecología y territorio, Bogota, Colombia, (2)Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, United States, (3)UNESCO-IHE� Institute for Water Education, HYDROINFORMATICS, Delft, Netherlands, (4)UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, HYDROINFORMATICS, Delft, Netherlands
Beyond the water balance: assessing the role of groundwater pumping in the integrated hydrologic cycle (Invited) (161877)
Laura E Condon, Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, 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
Climate Modeling and Analysis with Decision Makers in Mind (Invited) (191751)
Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kripa Akila Jagannathan, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States, Katherine V Calvin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, J F Lamarque, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
Hydrologic Response to Changes in the Timing and Rate of Snowmelt: Implications for Water Resource Management in the Western U.S. (Invited) (194479)
Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, Theodore B Barnhart, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Ernesto Trujillo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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