A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change scenarios and effects on snow-melt runoff

S Javadinejad, R Dara, F Jafary - Civil Engineering Journal, 2020 - researchgate.net
Climate change is an important environmental issue, as progression of melting glaciers and
snow cover is sensitive to climate alteration. The aim of this research was to model climate …

Changing climate drives future streamflow declines and challenges in meeting water demand across the southwestern United States

OL Miller, AL Putman, J Alder, M Miller, DK Jones… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Society and the environment in the arid southwestern United States depend on reliable
water availability, yet current water use outpaces supply. Water demand is projected to grow …

Projected changes in interannual variability of peak snowpack amount and timing in the Western United States

AM Marshall, JT Abatzoglou, TE Link… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Interannual variability of mountain snowpack has important consequences for ecological
and socioeconomic systems, yet changes in variability have not been widely examined …

How do modeling decisions affect the spread among hydrologic climate change projections? Exploring a large ensemble of simulations across a diversity of …

OS Chegwidden, B Nijssen, DE Rupp, JR Arnold… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Methodological choices can have strong effects on projections of climate change impacts on
hydrology. In this study, we investigate the ways in which four different steps in the modeling …

Climate change alters flood magnitudes and mechanisms in climatically-diverse headwaters across the northwestern United States

OS Chegwidden, DE Rupp… - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Flooding caused by high streamflow events poses great risk around the world and is
projected to increase under climate change. This paper assesses how climate change will …

Does the weighting of climate simulations result in a better quantification of hydrological impacts?

HM Wang, J Chen, CY Xu, H Chen… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
With the increase in the number of available global climate models (GCMs), pragmatic
questions come up in using them to quantify climate change impacts on hydrology: is it …

Evaluation of CMIP6 GCMs over the CONUS for downscaling studies

M Ashfaq, D Rastogi, J Kitson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the necessity of Global Climate Models (GCMs) sub‐selection in downscaling
studies, an objective approach for their selection is currently lacking. Building on the …

Spatial attribution of declining Colorado River streamflow under future warming

KM Whitney, ER Vivoni, TJ Bohn, G Mascaro… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies of climate change impacts in the Colorado River Basin have focused on the Upper
Basin, finding that warming has exacerbated streamflow declines since 2000. Presently, it is …

Downscaling and bias-correction contribute considerable uncertainty to local climate projections in CMIP6

DC Lafferty, RL Sriver - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023 - nature.com
Efforts to diagnose the risks of a changing climate often rely on downscaled and bias-
corrected climate information, making it important to understand the uncertainties and …