Past Research

Theme # 1: Assessments

This theme comes from the clause in our mission: “identify and characterize regional vulnerabilities to climate variability and change.”

Projects:

• Regional Economic Impacts of Drought
• Changes in Rocky Mountain Climate over the Last 50 Years
• Assessing Future Water Supplies/Demands in the South Platte Basin Under Various Climate, Growth, and Water Management Scenarios
• Front Range Municipal Response to 2002 Drought
• The Effects of Flushing Flows on Water Quality
• User Assessment of Large Front Range Water Providers
• Water Quality and the Drought of 2002: Regulatory aftershocks from an extreme climate event
• Usefulness of Climate Forecasts for Water Management in The South Platte
• The Potential of Agricultural Water Transfers to Meet Front Range Water Demand during the next 40 Years

Theme #2: Information, Products and Processes  

This theme comes from the clause in our mission: “develop information, products and processes to assist water-resource decision-makers throughout the Intermountain West.”

Projects:

• Climate Services Clearinghouse
• Experimental Seasonal Predictions for Colorado Water Managers
• TreeFlow: Streamflow reconstructions for Colorado
• Improving National Weather Service Streamflow Prediction in the Colorado River Basin
• Improving Natural Resources Conservation Service and National Weather Service Snowpack and Streamflow Monitoring and Prediction

Theme #3: Evaluation of Assessments and Information, Products and Processes

This theme is present to make sure that our work meets the needs of water resource decision-makers, other RISA programs, and our main funder, NOAA.

Projects:

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