H31N:
Water and Society: The Future of Coupled Water–Energy Systems Confronting Global Change I Posters


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Session ID#: 63450

Session Description:
The impacts of long-term change on water systems often manifest themselves as short-term management challenges. Major trends affect water systems including changing precipitation and snowmelt timing influencing the seasonality of hydro availability; changing frequency of floods and droughts influencing both peak power demands and the operating conditions at dams; and the expanding role of wind and solar technologies. These trends create a range of challenges and opportunities for water system managers. This session focuses on moving beyond traditional uncertainty approaches to develop flexible physical systems that actively adapt and respond to new information. In this session, we solicit novel contributions on (1) climate adaptation; (2) uncertainty and sensitivity analyses for vulnerability assessments; and (3) reducing the impacts of nonstationary extreme events on energy, agricultural, and ecological systems.
Primary Convener:  Sean William Donald Turner, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan Lamontagne, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States, Thomas Bernard Wild, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sean William Donald Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Chairs:  Sean William Donald Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Jonathan Lamontagne, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sean William Donald Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1808 Dams [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Stochastic Hydro-Wind-Photovoltaic Cooperative Operation Model Based on Tendency Scenario Reduction (357276)
Xianxun Wang1, Yadong Mei2, Weinan Li2, Hao Wang3 and Lihua Chen4, (1)Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan, China, (3)State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China, (4)Guangxi University, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanning, China
Advancing the value and use of forecasts in multi-objective reservoir control: a case study on the Lower Susquehanna River (391440)
Kenji Doering1, Jazmin Zatarain-Salazar1, Julianne Quinn2, Patrick M Reed3 and Scott Steinschneider4, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, United States, (4)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Coupling Hydrologic Model Outputs and Demographics Data to Inform Climate Change Planning (357062)
Sheila M. Saia1, Kelly Suttles1, Bethany Cutts2, Ryan E Emanuel3, Katherine Martin3, David N Wear4, John Coulston4 and James M Vose5, (1)Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, United States Forest Service Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, United States, (3)North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, (4)United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States, (5)United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Raleigh, NC, United States
Impacts of declining snowpack and seasonal runoff forecast accuracy on California water supply (379465)
Jonathan S Cohen, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States and Harrison Bray Zeff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES), Chapel Hill, United States
Navigating Regional Robustness Conflicts By Discovering Cooperative Safe Operating Spaces for Regional Water Supply Portfolios (381291)
David Gold1, Bernardo Carvalho Trindade2, Patrick M Reed2 and Gregory W Characklis3, (1)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Negotiating New Hydropower Dams in International River Basins (453750)
Evgenii Matrosov1, Robel Tilaye Geressu1,2 and Julien J Harou3, (1)University of Manchester, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Manchester, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (3)The University of Manchester, Department of Civil Engineering and Management, Manchester, United Kingdom
On Modeling Adaptive Governance For Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems (361140)
Mehran Homayounfar, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and John Martin Anderies, Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Tempe, United States
Projected Increase in Hydropower Production in India under Climate Change (409223)
Saran Aadhar, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, Jodhpur, India, Mishra Vimal, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India, Syed Azhar Ali, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India and Harsh Lovekumar Shah, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj, India
Towards adaptive reservoir management: insights into policy and input variable selection for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) (431103)
Robel Tilaye Geressu, University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, London, United Kingdom; University of Manchester, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Manchester, United Kingdom, Charles Rouge, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom and Julien J Harou, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Unlocking hydrological uncertainties for adapting decision-making in the Himalayas (435391)
Bhopal Pandeya, Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Clive Potter, Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy, London, United Kingdom
Vulnerability of hydropower project under changing climate (466365)
Vinod Chilkoti1, Tirupati Bolisetti2 and Ram Balachandar1, (1)University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada, (2)University of Windsor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Windsor, ON, Canada

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