Publications

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.

2023

  • Reports, Syntheses, and Assessments
    Barnhart, Katherine  R., Veronica Y. Romero, and Katherine R. Clifford. 2023. “User Needs Assessment for Postfire Debris-Flow Inundation Hazard Products.” Report 2023–1025. Open-File Report. Reston, VA. USGS Publications Warehouse.   https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20231025
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Bishay, Kaitlyn, Nels R. Bjarke, Parthkumar Modi, Justin M. Pflug, and Ben Livneh. 2023. “Can Remotely Sensed Snow Disappearance Explain Seasonal Water Supply?” Water 15 (6): 1147.   https://doi.org/10.3390/w15061147
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Clifford, K. R., J. Henderson, Z. McAlear, L. Dilling, B. Duncan, S. Ehert, S. Arens, R. Page, and U. Rick. 2023. “The ‘Nuts and Bolts’ of Doing Coproduction: Exploring Implementation Decisions in Climate Adaptation Research with Stakeholders.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (4): E872–83.   https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0292.1
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Culler, Elsa S., Ben Livneh, Balaji Rajagopalan, and Kristy F. Tiampo. 2023. “A Data-Driven Evaluation of Post-Fire Landslide Susceptibility.” Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 23 (4): 1631–52.   https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1631-2023
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Dilling, Lisa, Meaghan E. Daly, William R. Travis, Andrea J. Ray, and Olga V. Wilhelmi. 2023. “The Role of Adaptive Capacity in Incremental and Transformative Adaptation in Three Large U.S. Urban Water Systems.” Global Environmental Change 79 (March): 102649.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102649
  • Reports, Syntheses, and Assessments
    Great Salt Lake Strike Team. 2023. “Great Salt Lake Policy Assessment: A Synthesized Resource Document for the 2023 General Legislative Session,” February.   https://gardner.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/GSL-Assessment-Feb2023.pdf?x71849
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Hale, Katherine E., Keith S. Jennings, Keith N. Musselman, Ben Livneh, and Noah P. Molotch. 2023. “Recent Decreases in Snow Water Storage in Western North America.” Communications Earth & Environment 4 (1): 170.   https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00751-3
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Heldmyer, Aaron J., Nels R. Bjarke, and Ben Livneh. 2023. “A 21st‐Century Perspective on Snow Drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 59 (2): 396–415.   https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13095
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Knowles, John F., Nels R. Bjarke, Andrew M. Badger, Max Berkelhammer, Joel A. Biederman, Peter D. Blanken, Mario Bretfeld, et al. 2023. “Bark Beetle Impacts on Forest Evapotranspiration and Its Partitioning.” Science of The Total Environment 880 (July): 163260.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163260
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Pokhrel, Yadu, Ahmed Elkouk, Lifeng Luo, Liz Payton, Ben Livneh, and Yifan Cheng. 2023. “Impact of Model Parameters on Runoff Sensitivities in the Community Land Model: A Study on the Upper Colorado River Basin.” EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10644.   https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10644
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Rader, Alana M., Christine Biermann, Stephen M. Chignell, Katherine R. Clifford, Lisa C. Kelley, and Rebecca Lave. 2023. “Practicing Critical Physical Geography: New Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise in an Expanding Field.” The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien 67 (1): 10–16.   https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12828
  • Reports, Syntheses, and Assessments
    Strong, Courtenay, Luke Stone, Paul Brooks, Meg Wolf, Logan Jamison, Baylee Olds, Steve Burian, Ryan Johnson, and Danyal Aziz. 2023. “Climate Vulnerability Assessment of Salt Lake City’s Water Systems: Year 5 Report.” University of Utah.   https://www.inscc.utah.edu/~strong/climate_vulnerability/Year_5/Climate_Vulnerability_Y5_Report_02Feb23.pdf
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Wolf, Margaret A., Logan R. Jamison, D. Kip Solomon, Courtenay Strong, and Paul D. Brooks. 2023. “Multi‐Year Controls on Groundwater Storage in Seasonally Snow‐Covered Headwater Catchments.” Water Resources Research 59 (6): e2022WR033394.   https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033394
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Yao, Fangfang, Ben Livneh, Balaji Rajagopalan, Jida Wang, Jean-François Crétaux, Yoshihide Wada, and Muriel Berge-Nguyen. 2023. “Satellites Reveal Widespread Decline in Global Lake Water Storage.” Science 380 (6646): 743–49.   https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2812

2022

  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Bailey, Karen M., Katie R. Hooker, Anne A. Loggins, Alex D. Potash, Donald W. Hardeman, and Robert A. McCleery. 2022. “It Pays to Get Paid: Factors Influencing Wildlife‐related Employment Success.” Wildlife Society Bulletin 46 (1).   https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1252
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Brucker, Carli P., Ben Livneh, J. Toby Minear, and Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz. 2022. “A Review of Simulation Experiment Techniques Used to Analyze Wildfire Effects on Water Quality and Supply.” Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 24 (8): 1110–32.   https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00045H
  • Book/Book Chapter
    Clifford, K.R., Goolsby, J.B., Cravens, A.E., and Cooper, A.E., 2022, Rapidly assessing social characteristics of drought preparedness and decision making: A guide for practitioners: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 17-A1, 41 p.   https://doi.org/10.3133/tm17A1
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Clifford, Katherine R, Amanda E Cravens, and Corrine N Knapp. 2022. “Responding to Ecological Transformation: Mental Models, External Constraints, and Manager Decision-Making.” BioScience 72 (1): 57–70. Clifford_etal_2022_RAD-resist-accept-direct-decision-making-constraints-models.pdf  https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab086
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Clifford, Katherine R. 2022. “Natural Exceptions or Exceptional Natures? Regulatory Science and the Production of Rarity.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, June, 1–18.   https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2054768
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Crausbay, Shelley D, Helen R Sofaer, Amanda E Cravens, Brian C Chaffin, Katherine R Clifford, John E Gross, Corrine N Knapp, et al. 2022. “A Science Agenda to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation.” BioScience 72 (1): 71–90. Crausbay_etal_2022_RAD-resist-accept-direct-science-agenda.pdf  https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab102
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Dunham, Jason, Joseph R. Benjamin, David J. Lawrence, and Katherine Clifford. 2022. “Resist, Accept, and Direct Responses to Biological Invasions: A Social–Ecological Perspective.” Fisheries Management and Ecology, June, fme.12574.   https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12574
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Frisvold, George B., Linda M. Fernandez, Flavio Lehner, Stephanie A. McAfee, Sharon Megdal, Elizabeth Payton, Jack Schmidt, Julie Vano, and Connie Woodhouse. 2022. “Featured Collection Introduction: Severe Sustained Drought Revisited: Managing the Colorado River System in Times of Water Shortage 25 Years Later — Part I.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58 (5): 597–603.   https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13062
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Frisvold, George B., Linda M. Fernandez, Flavio Lehner, Stephanie A. McAfee, Sharon Megdal, Elizabeth Payton, Jack Schmidt, Julie Vano, and Connie Woodhouse. 2022. “Featured Collection Introduction: Severe Sustained Drought Revisited: Managing the Colorado River System in Times of Water Shortage 25 Years Later — Part II.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58 (6): 1049–52.   https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13085
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Gaughan, Andrea E., Nicholas E. Kolarik, Forrest R. Stevens, Narcisa G. Pricope, Lin Cassidy, Jonathan Salerno, Karen M. Bailey, Michael Drake, Kyle Woodward, and Joel Hartter. 2022. “Using Very-High-Resolution Multispectral Classification to Estimate Savanna Fractional Vegetation Components.” Remote Sensing 14 (3): 551.   https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030551
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Hale, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Heldmyer, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Holland, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Kroepsch, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Magness, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Modi, 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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