At Western Water Assessment, we communicate the results of our research and provide other climate-related information through several types of publications. Peer-reviewed scientific journals are an important outlet for sharing our new work with our research colleagues and with stakeholders. We have also produced a number of WWA reports and white papers that describe individual projects or synthesize broader sets of research findings. In addition to these avenues, our research has been published in book chapters, special reports released by other organizations, and in conference proceedings. As part of our Intermountain West Climate Summary climate digest, since 2005 we have published several dozen short articles on WWA research, relevant research projects led by others, and climate information resources.
2022
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleHale, K.E., A.N. Wlostowski, A.M. Badger, K.N. Musselman, B. Livneh, and N.P. Molotch. 2022. “Modeling Streamflow Sensitivity to Climate Warming and Surface Water Inputs in a Montane Catchment.” Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 39 (February): 100976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100976
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleHeldmyer, Aaron, Ben Livneh, James McCreight, Laura Read, Joseph Kasprzyk, and Toby Minear. 2022. “Evaluation of a New Observationally Based Channel Parameterization for the National Water Model.” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 26 (23): 6121–36. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6121-2022
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleHolland, Melanie, Chris Thomas, Ben Livneh, Stephanie Tatge, Alex Johnson, and Evan Thomas. 2022. “Development and Validation of an In Situ Groundwater Abstraction Sensor Network, Hydrologic Statistical Model, and Blockchain Trading Platform: A Demonstration in Solano County, California.” ACS ES&T Water 2 (12): 2345–58. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00214
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleKroepsch, Adrianne C., and Katherine R. Clifford. 2022. “On Environments of Not Knowing: How Some Environmental Spaces and Circulations Are Made Inscrutable.” Geoforum 132 (June): 171–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.009
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleMagness, Dawn R, Linh Hoang, R Travis Belote, Jean Brennan, Wylie Carr, F Stuart Chapin, Katherine Clifford, Wendy Morrison, John M Morton, and Helen R Sofaer. 2022. “Management Foundations for Navigating Ecological Transformation by Resisting, Accepting, or Directing Social-Ecological Change.” BioScience 72 (1): 30–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab083
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleModi, Parthkumar A., Eric E. Small, Joseph Kasprzyk, and Ben Livneh. 2022. “Investigating the Role of Snow Water Equivalent on Streamflow Predictability during Drought.” Journal of Hydrometeorology 23 (10): 1607–25. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-21-0229.1
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Briefings, Short Assessments, and Fact SheetsRangwala, I. (2022). Grim 2022 drought outlook for Western US offers warnings for the future as climate change brings a hotter, thirstier atmosphere. The Conversation. May 19, 2022. https://theconversation.com/grim-2022-drought-outlook-for-western-us-offers-warnings-for-the-future-as-climate-change-brings-a-hotter-thirstier-atmosphere-182640
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Reports, Syntheses, and AssessmentsRiley, R., D. Bertrand, and S. Arens, 2022: Connecting Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Planning in Climate Discourse-Sensitive Regions: A Cross-RISA Collaborative Project. Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program and Western Water Assessment, 22 pp. CAHMPCrossRISA.pdf
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Reports, Syntheses, and AssessmentsWestern Water Assessment, 2022. Utah Hazard Planning Tool, S. J. T. Arens, ed., Western Water Assessment, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Utah Hazard Planning Tool (May 2022) Utah Hazard Planning Tool
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleWilliams, A.P., B. Livneh, K.A. McKinnon, W.D. Hansen, J.S. Mankin, B.I. Cook, J.E. Smerdon, A.M. Varuolo-Clarke, N.R. Bjarke, C.S. Juang, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2022: Growing impact of wildfire on western United States water supply, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, 119(10) e2114069119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114069119
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleWobus, Cameron, Eric Small, Jared C. Carbone, Parthkumar Modi, Hannah Kamen, William Szafranski, and Ben Livneh. 2022. “Water Allocation, Return Flows, and Economic Value in Water-Scarce Environments: Results from a Coupled Natural-Human System Model.” Water 14 (20): 3280. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14203280
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleYang, Kehan, Keith N. Musselman, Karl Rittger, Steven A. Margulis, Thomas H. Painter, and Noah P. Molotch. 2022. “Combining Ground-Based and Remotely Sensed Snow Data in a Linear Regression Model for Real-Time Estimation of Snow Water Equivalent.” Advances in Water Resources 160 (February): 104075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.104075
2021
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleAbolafia-Rosenzweig, R., M. Pan, J.L. Zeng, and B. Livneh (2021). A remotely sensed ensemble to observe the terrestrial water budget over major global river basins, Remote Sensing of Environment, 252, 112191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112191
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Reports, Syntheses, and AssessmentsArens, S., L. Jameson, P. Brooks, A. Weech, C. Strong, J. Everitt, and D.E. Rosenberg (2021). Weber River Basin Climate Vulnerability Assessment. Western Water Assessment. Weber River Basin Climate Vulnerability Assessment
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleBadger, *A.M., N.R. Bjarke, N. Molotch, and B. Livneh, 2021: The sensitivity of runoff generation to spatial snowpack uniformity in an alpine watershed: Green Lakes Valley, Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research Station, Hydrological Processes, e14331. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14331
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleBarnhart, Theodore B., Jelena Vukomanovic, Patrick Bourgeron, and Noah P. Molotch. 2021. “Future Land Cover and Climate May Drive Decreases in Snow Wind‐scour and Transpiration, Increasing Streamflow at a Colorado, USA Headwater Catchment.” Hydrological Processes 35 (11). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14416
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleBjarke, N.R., B. Livneh, S. Elmendorf, N. Molotch, E. Hinckley, J. Morse, N. Emery, P. Johnson, and K. Suding, 2021: Catchment scale observations at the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site, Hydrological Processes. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14320
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleBrooks, Paul D., Andrew Gelderloos, Margaret A. Wolf, Logan R. Jamison, Courtenay Strong, D. Kip Solomon, Gabriel J. Bowen, et al. 2021. “Groundwater‐Mediated Memory of Past Climate Controls Water Yield in Snowmelt‐Dominated Catchments.” Water Resources Research 57 (10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030605
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Reports, Syntheses, and AssessmentsBuono, P., Rondeau, R., Bidwell, M., Monroe, S., Rank, G., Roberts, S., Cross, M., and Rangwala, I. (2021). Prioritized Drought Resilience Strategies for the Mancos Watershed. Prepared for Mancos Watershed Group.
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Briefings, Short Assessments, and Fact SheetsBurns, Ethan (2021). Ecological Drought in the Intermountain West. Western Water Assessment. Ecological Drought in the Intermountain West
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Briefings, Short Assessments, and Fact SheetsBurns, Ethan (2021). The Impacts of Wildland Fire on Municipal Water Supply. Western Water Assessment. The Impacts of Wildland Fire on Municipal Water Supply
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleCuller, E.S., *A.M. Badger, J.T. Minear, K.F. Tiampo, S. Zeigler, and B. Livneh, 2021: A Multi-sensor Evaluation of Precipitation Uncertainty for Landslide-triggering Storm Events, Hydrological Processes, 35(7), e14260. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14260
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleCuller, Elsa S., Ben Livneh, Balaji Rajagopalan, and Kristy F. Tiampo (2021). A Data-Driven Evaluation of Post-Fire Landslide Susceptibility. Preprint. Landslides and Debris Flows Hazards. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2021-111
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleDilling, Lisa, Maria Carmen Lemos, and Nuvodita Singh. 2021. “Commentary: First, Do No Harm: Scaling Usable Knowledge for Just and Equitable Outcomes.” Global Environmental Change 71 (November): 102404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102404
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleEsit, Musa, Sanjiv Kumar, Ashutosh Pandey, David M. Lawrence, Imtiaz Rangwala, and Stephen Yeager. 2021. “Seasonal to Multi-Year Soil Moisture Drought Forecasting.” Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 4 (1): 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00172-z
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleHeldmyer, A.J., B. Livneh, B. Rajagopalan, and N. Molotch, 2021: Investigating the Relationship Between Peak Snow-Water Equivalent and Snow Timing Indices in the Western U.S. and Alaska, Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR029395. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029395
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleHenderson, Jen, Lisa Dilling, Rebecca Morss, Olga Wilhelmi, and Ursula Rick. 2021. “‘We Got in the Pilot Program to Learn from It:’ Features of Social Learning in Drought Contexts Along the Arkansas River in Colorado.” Weather, Climate, and Society, June. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0120.1
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleHoerling, Martin, Lesley Smith, Xiao-Wei Quan, Jon Eischeid, Joseph Barsugli, and Henry F. Diaz (2021). Explaining the Spatial Pattern of U.S. Extreme Daily Precipitation Change. J. Climate, 34(7), 2759–2775. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0666.1
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Reports, Syntheses, and AssessmentsKeyes, Aislyn (2021). Mobile homes and flood risk: An analysis of flood risk and historical flooding in the Intermountain West and Michigan. Western Water Assessment. Mobile homes and flood risk: An analysis of flood risk and historical flooding in the Intermountain West and Michigan
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Peer-Reviewed Journal ArticleKroepsch, A. C., and K. R. Clifford (2021). On environments of not knowing: How some environmental spaces and circulations are made inscrutable. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2021.05.009