2015

Shoaei , Farrokh 1 ; Crimaldi , John P. 2 1 University of Colorado Boulder 2 University of Colorado Boulder Abstract to be uploaded later.

Famiglietti , Jay 1 1 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Just as the settling and development of the arid American West was fueled by harnessing its available fresh water, the growing lack of water availability may well be its undoing. California?s epic drought is just the latest example of what is...

Zhang , Qinghuan 1 ; Williams , Mark 2 ; Cowie , Rory 3 1 Geography & INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder 2 Geography & INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder 3 Geography & INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder Hydrologic modeling is necessary in predicting discharge, especially in mountainous areas where...

Yates , David 1 ; Miller , Kathleen A 2 ; Wilby , Robert L 3 ; Kaatz , Laurna 4 2 Presenting Author 1 NCAR 2 NCAR 3 Loughborough University 4 Denver Water Drought episodes and climate change may threaten water supplies for cities and farms along Colorado?s Front...

Wohl , Ellen 1 1 Colorado State University Channel-spanning logjams occur on rivers throughout Rocky Mountain National Park. Each jam creates a backwater area in which finer sediment and organic matter are deposited. Jams thus slow the downstream movement of water, sediment, and nutrients. The backwater at a jam provides...

Wilson , Alāna M. 1 ; Williams , Mark W. 2 1 Geography & INSTAAR, CU Boulder 2 Geography & INSTAAR, CU Boulder New results from tritium (H3) analysis of waters from the Langtang Valley, Nepal offer insight into the relative ages of different source waters in the glacierized catchment...

Weingarten , Matthew 1 ; Ge , Shemin 2 1 University of Colorado-Boulder 2 University of Colorado-Boulder An unprecedented increase in earthquakes in the central and eastern US (CEUS) began in 2009. Many of these earthquakes have been documented as likely induced by wastewater injection. To better understand the likelihood...

Watson , Abigail 1 ; Kasprzyk , Joseph 2 1 CU-Boulder 2 CU-Boulder Increasingly, decision support systems seek to provide structured robust decision-making support for stakeholders and decision makers under the context of deep uncertainty. Deep uncertainty refers to situations in which stakeholders or decision makers do not know, or...

Tomkinson , Lauren J 1 1 INSTAAR The Center for Water, Earth Science and Technology (CWEST) is a scientific and educational partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and CU Boulder. Housed within the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), CWEST enhances the many successful and ongoing collaborations taking...

Thompson , Sally 1 1 University of California, Berkeley Seasonally dry ecosystems (or SDEs) include Mediterranean, Monsoonal and Tropically Dry climates. SDEs occur worldwide and share a pronounced contrast in precipitation between a wet season, and a dry season in which little to no rain falls. Water availability in SDEs...