Search Results - "Lettenmaier, D. P."

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions by Barnett, T.P, Adams, J.C, Lettenmaier, D.P

“…All currently available climate models predict a near-surface warming trend under the influence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In…”
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Value of long‐term streamflow forecasts to reservoir operations for water supply in snow‐dominated river catchments by Anghileri, D., Voisin, N., Castelletti, A., Pianosi, F., Nijssen, B., Lettenmaier, D. P.

“…We present a forecast‐based adaptive management framework for water supply reservoirs and evaluate the contribution of long‐term inflow forecasts to reservoir…”
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Seasonal hydrologic prediction in the United States: understanding the role of initial hydrologic conditions and seasonal climate forecast skill by Shukla, S., Lettenmaier, D. P.

“…Seasonal hydrologic forecasts derive their skill from knowledge of initial hydrologic conditions and climate forecast skill associated with seasonal climate…”
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Global and Continental Drought in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Severity–Area–Duration Analysis and Temporal Variability of Large-Scale Events by Sheffield, J., Andreadis, K. M., Wood, E. F., Lettenmaier, D. P.

“…Using observation-driven simulations of global terrestrial hydrology and a cluster algorithm that searches for spatially connected regions of soil moisture,…”
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A multimodel ensemble approach to assessment of climate change impacts on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River Basin by Christensen, N. S., Lettenmaier, D. P.

“…Implications of 21st century climate change on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River Basin were assessed using a multimodel ensemble approach…”
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Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP) by Melton, J. R, Wania, R, Hodson, E. L, Poulter, B, Ringeval, B, Spahni, R, Bohn, T, Avis, C. A, Beerling, D. J, Chen, G, Eliseev, A. V, Denisov, S. N, Hopcroft, P. O, Lettenmaier, D. P, Riley, W. J, Singarayer, J. S, Subin, Z. M, Tian, H, Zürcher, S, Brovkin, V, van Bodegom, P. M, Kleinen, T, Yu, Z. C, Kaplan, J. O

“…Global wetlands are believed to be climate sensitive, and are the largest natural emitters of methane (CH4). Increased wetland CH4 emissions could act as a…”
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The Observed State of the Water Cycle in the Early Twenty-First Century by Rodell, M., Beaudoing, H. K., L’Ecuyer, T. S., Olson, W. S., Famiglietti, J. S., Houser, P. R., Adler, R., Bosilovich, M. G., Clayson, C. A., Chambers, D., Clark, E., Fetzer, E. J., Gao, X., Gu, G., Hilburn, K., Huffman, G. J., Lettenmaier, D. P., Liu, W. T., Robertson, F. R., Schlosser, C. A., Sheffield, J., Wood, E. F.

“…This study quantifies mean annual and monthly fluxes of Earth’s water cycle over continents and ocean basins during the first decade of the millennium. To the…”
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On the sources of global land surface hydrologic predictability by Shukla, S, Sheffield, J, Wood, E. F, Lettenmaier, D. P

“…Global seasonal hydrologic prediction is crucial to mitigating the impacts of droughts and floods, especially in the developing world. Hydrologic…”
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A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States by Maurer, E. P., Wood, A. W., Adam, J. C., Lettenmaier, D. P., Nijssen, B.

“…A frequently encountered difficulty in assessing model-predicted land–atmosphere exchanges of moisture and energy is the absence of comprehensive observations…”
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Changes in winter precipitation extremes for the western United States under a warmer climate as simulated by regional climate models by Dominguez, F., Rivera, E., Lettenmaier, D. P., Castro, C. L.

“…We find a consistent and statistically significant increase in the intensity of future extreme winter precipitation events over the western United States, as…”
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Hydrologic Implications of Dynamical and Statistical Approaches to Downscaling Climate Model Outputs by Wood, A W, Leung, L R, Sridhar, V, Lettenmaier, D P

“…Six approaches for downscaling climate model outputs for use in hydrologic simulation were evaluated, with particular emphasis on each method's ability to…”
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The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century by L’Ecuyer, Tristan S., Beaudoing, H. K., Rodell, M., Olson, W., Lin, B., Kato, S., Clayson, C. A., Wood, E., Sheffield, J., Adler, R., Huffman, G., Bosilovich, M., Gu, G., Robertson, F., Houser, P. R., Chambers, D., Famiglietti, J. S., Fetzer, E., Liu, W. T., Gao, X., Schlosser, C. A., Clark, E., Lettenmaier, D. P., Hilburn, K.

“…New objectively balanced observation-based reconstructions of global and continental energy budgets and their seasonal variability are presented that span the…”
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Forecasting transboundary river water elevations from space by Biancamaria, S., Hossain, F., Lettenmaier, D. P.

“…Over 90% of Bangladesh's surface water is generated upstream of its border, yet no real‐time information is shared by India (the upstream country) with respect…”
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SWOT data assimilation for operational reservoir management on the upper Niger River Basin by Munier, S., Polebistki, A., Brown, C., Belaud, G., Lettenmaier, D. P.

“…The future Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission will provide two‐dimensional maps of water elevation for rivers with width greater than…”
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Coupled daily streamflow and water temperature modelling in large river basins by van Vliet, M. T. H, Yearsley, J. R, Franssen, W. H. P, Ludwig, F, Haddeland, I, Lettenmaier, D. P, Kabat, P

“…Realistic estimates of daily streamflow and water temperature are required for effective management of water resources (e.g. for electricity and drinking water…”
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Modeling the effect of glacier recession on streamflow response using a coupled glacio-hydrological model by Naz, B. S, Frans, C. D, Clarke, G. K. C, Burns, P, Lettenmaier, D. P

“…We describe an integrated spatially distributed hydrologic and glacier dynamic model, and use it to investigate the effect of glacier recession on streamflow…”
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On the causes of the shrinking of Lake Chad by Gao, H, Bohn, T J, Podest, E, McDonald, K C, Lettenmaier, D P

“…Over the last 40 years, Lake Chad, once the sixth largest lake in the world, has decreased by more than 90% in area. In this study, we use a hydrological model…”
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Multi-criteria parameter estimation for the Unified Land Model by Livneh, B, Lettenmaier, D. P

“…We describe a parameter estimation framework for the Unified Land Model (ULM) that utilizes multiple independent data sets over the continental United States…”
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Model estimates of climate controls on pan-Arctic wetland methane emissions by Chen, X, Bohn, T J, Lettenmaier, D P

“…Climate factors including soil temperature and moisture, incident solar radiation, and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration are important environmental…”
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Assimilation of virtual wide swath altimetry to improve Arctic river modeling by Biancamaria, S., Durand, M., Andreadis, K.M., Bates, P.D., Boone, A., Mognard, N.M., Rodríguez, E., Alsdorf, D.E., Lettenmaier, D.P., Clark, E.A.

“…Global surface water variations are still difficult to monitor with current satellite measurements. The future Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)…”
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