=Enhancing Water Supply Reliability=
An Interdisciplinary Research Project to Enhance Predictive Capacity on the Colorado River
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Newsletters
- Issue 1 - Fall 2004
- Issue 2 - Winter 2004
- Issue 3 - Spring 2005
- Issue 4 - Summer 2005
- Issue 5 - Fall 2005
- Issue 6 - Spring 2006
- Issue 7 - Winter 2006
- Issue 8 - Spring 2007
Final Reports
- Phase I (2004-2006) Final Report, issued November 2006
- Phase II (2007-2008) Final Report, issued March 2009
Economics
- Colby, Bonnie, K. Pittenger, and L. Jones. "Voluntary Irrigation Forbearance to Mitigate Drought Impacts: Economic Considerations." Updated: March 2007
- O'Donnell, Michael, and B. Colby. "Water Auction Design for Supply Reliability: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation." May 2009
- Pullen, J., and B. Colby. "Influence of Climate Variability on the Market Price of Water in the Gila-San Francisco Basin" 2008
- O'Donnell, Michael, and B. Colby. "Dry-Year Water Supply Reliability Contracts: A Tool for Water Managers." October 2009
Hydrologic Modeling
- Lindemayer, L. "Evaluating Experimental Streamflow Forecasts For Use in Reservoir Modeling on the Colorado River Basin." M.S. Thesis, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, 2006
- Troch, Peter, M. Durcik, et al. "New Data Sets to Estimate Terrestrial Water Storage Change." Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 2007
Paleoclimate Applications
- Fact Sheet: Drought and the Colorado River Basin
- Knight, Troy A., D. Meko, and C.H. Baisan. "A bimillennial-length tree-ring reconstruction of precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah" Quaternary Research, 2009, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.08.002
- Meko, David. "Medieval Drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin" 2007
- Woodhouse, Connie, S. Gray, and D. Meko. "Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin". Water Resources Research , v. 42, 2006
- Woodhouse, Connie, J. Lukas, and D. Meko. "Reconstructions of Colorado River Flow from Tree Rings" 2008
Water Management and Stakeholder Engagement
- Garrick, Dustin, and K. Jacobs. "Water Management on the Colorado River: From Surplus to Shortage in 5 years." Southwest Hydrology." May/June 2006
- Garrick, Dustin, and K. Jacobs. "Tree Ring Records Inform Water Management Decisions." Southwest Climate Outlook. Climate Assessment for the Southwest. May 2005
- Garrick, Dustin, K. Jacobs, and G Garfin. "Models, Assumptions, and Stakeholders: Planning for Water Supply Variability in the Colorado River Basin" 2008
- Goddard, L., A. Wood, N. Mantua, K. Jacobs. "Decadal Climate Prediction: Learning From the Oceans" 2008
Conference Posters and Presentations
- Enhancing Water Supply Reliability Poster
- Bark, Rosalind, B. Colby, et al. "The Colorado River: Integrating Hydrologic and Management Perspectives" Presentation, November 2008
- Garfin, Gregg, K. Jacobs, and J. Buizer. "Climate Change Adaptation Lessons from the Land of Dry Heat" in Webb, R.M.T., and D.J. Semmens, eds., 2009, Planning for an uncertain future - Monitoring, integration, and adaptation. Proceedings of the Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5049, 292 p.
- Switanek, Matt, P. Troch, and C. Castro. "Improving Seasonal Predictions of Climate Variability and Water Availability at the Catchment Scale" Poster, 2008
- Switanek, Matt, and P. Troch. "Quantifying the Hydrologic Effect of Climate Variability in the Lower Colorado" Poster, 2007
- Troch, Peter. "Climate, Hydrology, and Water Resources Mangement of Large River Basins" Presentation, September 2006
=Enhancing Water Supply Reliability=
An Interdisciplinary Research Project to Enhance Predictive Capacity on the Colorado River