H14H:
Water and Society: Achieving Water Security Under Climate Change, from Cloud Computing and Extreme Event Modeling to Decision Support and Policy I

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Session ID#: 34211

Session Description:
Extreme hydrological events such as droughts and floods are intimately linked to feedbacks between regional climate, policy, and economics. Improved water security requires the development of science-based hydrological tools for decision support. These tools can: a) access observed and remotely sensed data for calibration; b) simulate the coupled dynamics of climate, human decisions, and environmental impacts; and c) produce results that are relevant at appropriate spatial scales to be interpreted and used by stakeholders and policymakers. This session spans regional and global-scale studies that advance the theory and practice of water management, in particular: cloud-based tools for data acquisition and processing; improved methodology for climate adaptation, including both water supply and quality considerations; advances in decision support in data-scarce contexts, including statistical and machine learning techniques; uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models of coupled systems; and impacts of nonstationary extreme events on energy, agricultural, and ecological systems.
Primary Convener:  Sara Sadri, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States, David E Rheinheimer, Centro del Agua para America Latina y el Caribe, Monterrey, Mexico and Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States and Sara Sadri, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
1996 Web Services [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Characterizing Drought Risk Management and Assessing the Robustness of Snowpack-based Drought Indicators in the Upper Colorado River Basin. (Invited) (218761)
Ben Livneh1, Andrew Badger2, Jeff Lukas3, Rebecca Page4 and Lisa Dilling4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, (2)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Western Water Assessment, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Untangling Consequential Futures: Discovering Self-Consistent Regional and Global Multi-Sector Change Scenarios (Invited) (251125)
Jonathan Lamontagne, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States and Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Incorporating Green Infrastructure into Water Resources Management Plans to Address Water Quality Impairments (296779)
Amy N Piscopo, Environmental Protection Agency Narragansett, Environmental Engineer, Narragansett, RI, United States and Naomi E Detenbeck, Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Lab, Narragansett, RI, United States
Hybrid Multi-Objective Optimization of Folsom Reservoir Operation to Maximize Storage in Whole Watershed (295943)
Erfan Goharian1, Robert Gailey1, Stephen Maples2, Mohammad Azizipour3, Samuel Sandoval Solis4 and Graham E Fogg5, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)USGS, Carson City, NV, United States, (3)Iran University of Science and Technology, School of Civil Engineering, Tehran, Iran, (4)University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, United States, (5)Univ California Davis, Davis, United States
Robust Decision Making to Support Water Quality Climate Adaptation: a Case Study in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Invited) (284183)
Jordan R Fischbach, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States, Robert J Lempert, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States and Edmundo Molina-Perez, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, Mexico

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