Webinar: Resources for Climate Model Data and Climate Model Informed Hydrology Projections
Channel: Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox
Date: 2015-04-24

Title: Resources for Climate Model Data and Climate Model Informed Hydrology Projections

Presenter: Laura Condon, Hydrologic Engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation

Date: Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2 PM Central (Mexico City)

Abstract:
Climate change and climate variability are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in natural resource management and research. Equally increasing are the datasets and sources for information relevant to such considerations of future climate. This webinar will provide an overview of some datasets and sources available to researchers and managers, with emphasis on an archive of climate projections and climate informed hydrology data developed and maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation and other collaborators. The site makes data from both the Coupled Model Inter-Comparison Project (CMIP) 3 and 5 ensembles available for public download. Furthermore, these ensembles have been downscaled and bias corrected to make finer resolution data available to potential users. Last, owing to the relative simplicity of hydrologic processes in climate models, output from the downscaled ensembles has been used to drive the high-resolution Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrology model and develop climate informed streamflow projections. Through this archive, data requests can be easily customized for specific geographic areas, time domains, variables of interest, spatial resolutions, emission scenarios, and climate models. 


About the Presenter:
Laura Condon is a Hydrologic Engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation in the Water Resources Planning and Operations Support Group, Technical Service Center. She has nearly eight years of professional experience in the water resources development field, both as a consultant in the private sector and in the Federal Government assessing regional scale climate change impacts. She has worked with managers and planners across the western US to evaluate future water supply, demand and risk of extreme events in many of Reclamation's Basin Studies. In addition to her work with Reclamation, she is also pursuing her PhD at Colorado School of Mines investigating groundwater surface water interactions and their implications for water management operations and planning.