PA11B:
Science to Action: Research to Applications (R2A) to Enhance Subseasonal to Seasonal Water Supply and Drought Outlooks II Posters

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Session ID#: 25219

Session Description:
Advances in the science of subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) climate forecasts are of critical importance to a wide range of decisionmakers for agriculture, water management, public lands and ecosystem management, who implement planning and preparedness at these time scales. The transition of S2S climate forecasts into applications is often augmented by sector-oriented information products such as drought and seasonal water supply or hydrologic outlooks, which help guide the management of water from local to regional scales. This session invites presentations from researchers, managers, and stakeholders that provide insight into efforts to improving operational S2S outlooks of drought, water supply, and streamflow, agricultural and other sectoral outcomes. Contributions might include studies of S2S predictability or forecast skill focussed on regions or seasons of interest for water or drought, predictability of drought indices or seasonal snow accumulation, or descriptions of stakeholder needs and decision challenges that would benefit from S2S forecast information.
Primary Convener:  Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Michelle Stokes, NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, United States; NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Brian Fuchs, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
Chairs:  Andrea J Ray, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD Laboratory, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andrea J Ray, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, Hydrology, and Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]
4341 Early warning systems [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Enhancing Seasonal Water Outlooks: Needs and Opportunities in the Critical Runoff Season (225154)
Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, Joseph J Barsugli, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Heather M Yocum, University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Michelle Stokes, NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, United States and David Miskus, NOAA, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States
Using snow data assimilation to improve ensemble streamflow forecasting for the Upper Colorado River Basin (278755)
Paul D. Micheletty1, Danielle Perrot1, Gerald N Day1, John Lhotak2, Jonathan Quebbeman1, Gi-Hyeon Park3 and Shaun Carney1, (1)RTI International, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, United States
Can we use Earth Observations to improve monthly water level forecasts? (239163)
Louise J. Slater, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom; Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom and Gabriele Villarini, IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States

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