H41C:
Water Resource Impacts From Past and Future Climate Change and Climate Variability

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Session ID#: 6294

Session Description:
Climate change and climate variability have the potential to affect the intensity and dynamics of the hydrologic cycle, resulting in potential changes to the volume and seasonality of water fluxes and states.  The theme of this session is to identify the scope and magnitude of the influence of climate change/climate variability on water resources in North America.  This session seeks research contributions  that directly assess the implications of climate driven changes to the planning, allocation, management and operations of water resource systems and the functioning of aquatic ecosystems.  We encourage presentations on a wide range of climate impacts studies from throughout North America which assess the sensitivity of public safety, agriculture, water supply and linked ecology.  The session will consider both current examples and future projections on specific topics, such as instream (ecological) flow needs, aquatic resource management, hydrological connectivity, hydropower generation and energy, flood protection and reservoir management.
OSPA Liaison:  Markus Schnorbus, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of VIctoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Chairs:  Rajesh Shrestha, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Daniel Peters, Environment Canada @ Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Convener:  Markus Schnorbus, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada
Conveners:  Rajesh Shrestha, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada and Daniel Peters, Environment Canada, Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H44C-0194
Can we disentangle the climate influences on Colorado River water resources using a multi-proxy approach to tree-ring data? (36696)
Adam Z Csank, Nipissing University, Department of Geography, North Bay, ON, Canada, Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Gregory T Pederson, U.S. Geological Survey, Bozeman, MT, United States and Steven W Leavitt, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
H41C-02
A new impacts-driven approach to understanding climate vulnerabilities (35700)
Julie A Vano, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
H41C-03
Ecological Flows for a Large Hydroelectric Reservoir Regulated River System: Will Projected Climate Change Bring About Beneficial Opportunities? (36244)
Daniel Peters1, Rajesh Shrestha2, Markus Schnorbus3, Wendy A Monk4 and Donald J Baird4, (1)Environment Canada @ Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
H41C-04
Climate-Driven Trends in the Occurrence of Major Floods in North America and Europe (33940)
Glenn A Hodgkins, U.S. Geological Survey, New England Water Science Center, Augusta, United States, Paul H Whitfield, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Donald H Burn, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Jamie Hannaford, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, Benjamin Renard, INRAE, RECOVER, Aix Marseille University, Aix-En-Provence, France, Kerstin Stahl, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, Anne K Fleig, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), Oslo, Norway, Henrik Madsen, DHI, Horsholm, Denmark, Luis Mediero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Hydraulics, Energy and Environment, Madrid, Spain, Johanna Korhonen, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland, Conor Murphy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, Philippe Crochet, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland and Donna Wilson, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
H41C-05
Hydrologic Impacts of Projected Climate in the Athabasca Watershed: Implication on Water Availability in the Region (34356)
Yonas B Dibike1, Hyung-Il Eum1 and Terry D Prowse2,3, (1)Environment Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Environment and climate change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)University of Victoria, Department of Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada
H41C-06
Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Wet and Dry Events for Southern California Water Resources (35959)
Brianna Rita Pagán1, Jeremy S Pal2, Moetasim Ashfaq3 and Donald R Kendall1, (1)Loyola Marymount University, Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)CMCC Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
H41C-07
Projecting climate change impacts on streamflow extremes using nonstationary generalized extreme value analysis (35261)
Rajesh Shrestha, Markus Schnorbus and Alex J Cannon, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of VIctoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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