H23Q:
Water and Society: Using Hydroclimatic Forecasts to Enhance Water Resources Decision-Making II Posters


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Session ID#: 50232

Session Description:
The past decade has seen numerous advancements in hydroclimatic forecasts in terms of accuracy, information context, and spatial and temporal resolution and scope. However, major questions remain: Why are forecasts still not readily utilized in water resources decision making? What are the specific barriers to real-world use of hydroclimatic forecasts? What can be done to increase the uptake of forecast information? This session invites scientists, engineers, and policy analysts to address these questions from a range of aspects including, but not limited to: 1) generating forecast information relevant to the needs of decision makers; 2) deriving useful and reliable information about forecast uncertainty; 3) integrating hydroclimatic forecasts with users’ behavioral and institutional settings; 4) improving information delivery technologies; and 5) using forecasts for the operation of water systems.
Primary Convener:  Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Conveners:  Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States and David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Chairs:  Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States and David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1816 Estimation and forecasting [HYDROLOGY]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessing the influence of hydroclimatic variables on flash flood occurrence over the CONUS using D-Vine Copula (426014)
Sepideh Khajehei, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, Ali Ahmadalipour, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Bias Correction of Precipitation and Temperature Forecasts for Blue Nile Water Resources Management (432582)
Muhammad Rezaul Haider, Rice University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Malaquias Peña, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, Efthymios Ioannis Nikolopoulos, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, Zoi Dokou, California State University Sacramento, Civil Engineering, Sacramento, United States and Emmanouil N Anagnostou, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, United States
Climate Impacts on Agricultural Water Demand in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh (343434)
Sonia Binte Murshed, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Jagath J Kaluarachchi, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Does equal marginal utility principle apply to the hydropower problems? (429613)
Wei Ding1, Lei Ye2, Haixing Liu1, Zhuohang Xin3 and Yong Peng1, (1)DUT Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, (2)Dalian University of Technology, School of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian, China, (3)Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Ensemble hydrological forecasts for real time management of the Shipshaw River (374751)
Estelle Reig, Université de Sherbrooke, Civil and Building engineering, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, Marie-Amelie Boucher, Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Civil Engineering, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada and Éric Tremblay, Resolute Forest Products, Hydro-Saguenay, Saguenay, QC, Canada
Flood Risk Analysis of Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations with HEC-WAT: A Case Study in the Russian River Basin (462930)
Thomas Brauer1, Matthew J. Fleming2 and Matthew M. McPherson2, (1)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, United States, (2)Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis, CA, United States
How Will Groundwater Pollution Risk under Climate Change Scenarios Affect Future Urban Expansion? (387969)
Shanshan Hua1,2 and Chunmiao Zheng1,3, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, (2)Peking University, School of Environment and Energy, Beijing, China, (3)University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, Armenia
An analytical framework for reservoir operation with combined natural inflow and controlled inflow (429548)
Yu Li1,2, Xiaoxian Chen3, Wei Ding1, Chi Zhang1 and Ximing Cai4, (1)Dalian University of Technology, School of Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian, China, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Informing Many-Objective Decision-Making for Water Rights Allocations and Trading Dynamics Conditioned on a Streamflow Prediction Regime in the Elqui River Basin (441782)
Melissa Estep, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Justin Daniel Delorit, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States and Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Integrated Forecast and Reservoir Management (INFORM) for Northern California: Tools to Facilitate Forecast-based Operational Frameworks. (449700)
Martin Kistenmacher, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Aris P. Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States
Integrating and assessing multi-objective reservoir operation with forecasting information (355967)
Guang Yang1,2, Shenglian Guo2 and Pan Liu3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and environmental engineering, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)Wuhan University, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China
Integrating Climate Prediction and Regionalization into an Agro-economic Model to Guide Agricultural Planning (412993)
Ying Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal, Donghoon Lee, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States and Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Snowmelt-dominated basins exhibit strong relationships between snow water equivalent and seasonally accumulated streamflow in the Sierra Nevada of California (468569)
Hannah Haugen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
The potential of hydroclimatic forecasts to inform lake level management on Lake Ontario (345871)
Elizabeth Carter, Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, United States, Wang Fu, Tsinghua University, Environmental Engineering, Beijing, China and Scott Steinschneider, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Uncovering a regime shift in Ethiopian highland summertime precipitation with implications for seasonal prediction (424561)
Paul J Block1, Shu WU2, Ben M Zaitchik3, Shraddhanand Shukla4, Annalise Blum3, Sarah Alexander2 and Ying Zhang3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States
Water-ecosystem-food Nexus in Arid Agricultural Areas: A Multi-objective Optimization Study (388134)
Geng Niu, Peking University, Beijing, China and Yi Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China

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