H44C:
Water Resource Impacts From Past and Future Climate Change and Climate Variability Posters

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Session ID#: 6922

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, University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, 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-0191
Testing for water risk in river basins in Nigeria (33911)
Steve Uwa Ayobahan, University of Benin, Environmental Management & Toxicology, Benin City, Nigeria
 
H44C-0192
Climate change of the Sardinian hydrology: the NAO impact on the precipitation and runoff regimes across the Mediterranean island. (34791)
Alessio Sarigu, University, DICAAR, Cagliari, Italy and Nicola Montaldo, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
 
H44C-0193
Changes of the Hydrologic regime over the last 90 years in the Flumendosa basin, Sardinia. (35118)
Roberto Corona1, Nicola Montaldo1 and John D Albertson2, (1)University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
 
H44C-0196
Risk to Groundwater Quality in Coastal Aquifers under the Pressure of Climate Change (35746)
Jeanette Klassen1, Diana M Allen1 and Karen Elizabeth Kohfeld2, (1)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)Simon Fraser University, School of Resource and Environmental Management and School of Environmental Science, Burnaby, Canada
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