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Cody , Kelsey C 1 ; Andersson , Krister 2 1 Environmental Studies Program, CU Boulder 2 Department of Political Science, CU Boulder In the coming century another three billion people will need to be fed. Irrigation of crops is responsible for 40 percent of the globe's food supply, and...

Bracken , Cameron 1 ; Rajagopalan , Balaji 2 ; Cheng , Linyin 3 ; Gangopadhyay , Subhrendu 4 1 CU Boulder 2 CU Boulder 3 NOAA 4 USBR We present a spatial Bayesian hierarchical model for seasonal extreme precipitation. At the first level of hierarchy, the seasonal maximum precipitation...

Wlostowski , Adam N 1 ; Gooseff , Michael N 2 ; McKnight , Diane M 3 ; Lyons , Berry W. 4 1 INSTAAR 2 INSTAAR 3 INSTAAR 4 Ohio State University Chemostasis (comparatively minor change of solute concentrations over a wide range of discharge) of weathering-derived solutes (e.g.,...

Szutu , Daphne J 1 ; Papuga , Shirley A 2 1 University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR 2 University of Arizona Dryland ecosystems account for nearly 40% of terrestrial biomes, and understanding transpiration dynamics in these environments is critical to understanding how climate change will impact global water and carbon...

Shellito , Peter J 1 ; Small , Eric E 2 1 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 2 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Surface soil moisture is measured both by NASA’s SMAP satellite mission and by validation networks of in...

Schutte , Mark 1 1 Olsson Associates In Rocky Mountain National Park, the 2013 flood destabilized segments of Roaring River and deposited an unusually large amount of sand- and gravel-sized sediment near the confluence with Fall River. We initiated field studies of these two rivers in May 2014 to investigate...

Runkel , Robert L 1 1 U.S. Geological Survey Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) from abandoned mine lands contaminates streams and rivers throughout the Colorado Mineral Belt. Much of this contamination has persisted for decades and is likely to continue given the impediments to cleanup that are present at most sites...

Rue , Garrett P 1 ; McKnight , Diane M 2 ; Gabor , Rachel 3 ; Anderson , Suzanne P 4 1 INSTAAR, ENVS; University of Colorado-Boulder 2 INSTAAR, CEAE, ENVS; University of Colorado-Boulder 3 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah 4 INSTAAR, GEOG; University of Colorado-Boulder...

Raleigh , Mark S. 1 ; Deems , Jeffrey S. 2 1 CU / CIRES / NSIDC 2 CU / CIRES/ NSIDC In the mountainous western United States, operational runoff forecasting centers typically use streamflow observations to calibrate snow models over multi-decadal periods to capture the mean snow accumulation and...

Painter , Thomas H. 1 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology Snow cover and its melt dominate regional climate and water resources in the world’s mountainous regions, providing for critical agricultural and sustaining populations in otherwise dry regions. Snowmelt timing and magnitude in mountains tend to be controlled by...