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

  • 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Stone, Luke, Courtenay Strong, Husile Bai, Thomas Reichler, Greg McCabe, and Paul D. Brooks. 2023. “Atlantic-Pacific Influence on Western U.S. Hydroclimate and Water Resources.” Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 6 (1): 139.   https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00471-7
  • 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Yao, Fangfang, J. Toby Minear, Balaji Rajagopalan, Chao Wang, Kehan Yang, and Ben Livneh. 2023. “Estimating Reservoir Sedimentation Rates and Storage Capacity Losses Using High‐Resolution Sentinel‐2 Satellite and Water Level Data.” Geophysical Research Letters 50 (16): e2023GL103524.    https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103524

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
  • Briefings, Short Assessments, and Fact Sheets
    Rangwala, 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
  • Reports, Syntheses, and Assessments
    Riley, 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  
  • Reports, Syntheses, and Assessments
    Western 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Williams, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Wobus, 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
  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Yang, 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

  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
    Abolafia-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
  • Reports, Syntheses, and Assessments
    Arens, 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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