University of Colorado Boulder. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
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2016.
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For water providers and others in the Rocky Mountain West who depend on the pulse of runoff from the melting snowpack from April through July, snowpack monitoring is drought monitoring. A well-below-average snowpack as measured by snow-water equivalent (SWE) is a harbinger of not only low water supply but also other drought impacts, such as increased fire risk and below-normal summer soil moisture. However, the snowpack is complex, varying...
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2018.
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Despite its potential, research is often critiqued for being not as usable for decision making in practice. This guide provides tangible, tested ways for making science more usable based on our experience in the Western Water Assessment as well as other input. It also highlights examples of researchers at CU Boulder who have produced usable research to serve practical needs.
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2014.
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Overall, the evaluation will address the following goals identified in the upper Colorado River Basin drought early warning system (UCRB DEWS) annual CIRES reports: service products; determined the value of drought-related information; and determined the value of specific products at different times during the water year.
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2011.
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Using documents and information obtained through a series of 22 structured interviews, the Colorado Climate Preparedness Project provides a catalog of climate impacts and adaptation activities and options in five climate-sensitive sectors in the state of Colorado: water; wildlife, ecosystems and forests; electricity; agriculture; and outdoor recreation.
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[2014]
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This report is a synthesis of climate science relevant for management and planning for Colorado's water resources. It focuses on observed climate trends, climate modeling, and projections of temperature, precipitation, snowpack, and streamflow. Climate projections are reported for the mid-21st century because this time frame is the focus of adaptation strategies being developed by the State of Colorado and other water entities.
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[2014]
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The current El Niño event is very strong, and is expected to affect weather around the globe, and in Colorado, through next spring. The impacts of El Niño are more complex over Colorado than other parts of the West. Strong El Niño conditions improve the odds for wetter-than-normal conditions in most parts of Colorado, especially in fall and spring. However, strong El Niño conditions also tend to bring dry mid-winters to our North-Central mountains....
15) Western watersheds and climate change: water and aquatic system tools workshop : evaluation results
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2009.
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The USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, in collaboration with USFS Region 2 and NOAA hosted the Western Watersheds and Climate Change: Water and Aquatic System Tools workshop on November 17-19, 2009 in Boulder, Colorado. This workshop, funded by the FY08 Forest Service Global Change Program, brought together 25 USFS National Forest (NF) staff working in western water and aquatic ecosystems, and 19 scientists from both other agencies and the academic...
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[2016]
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Climate variability and change is causing perturbations to natural systems (agriculture, water regimes, forestry, ecosystems, coasts and oceans, temperature extremes, etc.) and human systems necessitating that communities, states, and nations around the world take action to enhance their resilience to climate impacts. Adapting to climate change requires decision makers to have information in hand that is relevant to solve their problems,...