The potential impacts of climate change on the seasonal snowpack,
reservoir storage, and dam and hydroelectric operations
Investigators: Brandon Moore (Aniuk Consulting LLC)
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Abstract
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An understanding of future water availability in the United States,
particularly in the arid regions, based on a suite of climate change projections
will allow policy makers to better anticipate upcoming water issues,
such as the better allocation and management of water supply.
Through understanding of how timing and magnitude of water resources will change,
reservoir operators will be able to improve procedures and regulations.
We propose to statistically downscale the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
climate model A1 and B2 climate scenarios of temperature and precipitation and apply
the downscaled values to create gridded predictions of snowpack conditions using
remote sensing and mathematical techniques.
These grids can be used as input into hydrologic models to forecast water supply and, thus,
enable the investigation of potential impacts of climate change on reservoir operations.
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NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) climate models and MODIS snow products.
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