Assessment of Texas water resources in the context of changing climate: toward alignment of research agendas and capabilities with stakeholder needs.

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dc.creatorBanner, Jay
dc.creatorNielsen-Gammon, John W
dc.creatorTremaine, Darrel M
dc.creatorGao, Huilin
dc.creatorHoffpauir, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-18T13:25:19Z
dc.date.available2021-01-18T13:25:19Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-11
dc.description.abstractLong-range water planning is complicated by changes in climate, population, and water use. In Texas, the current approach is to maintain water supplies sufficient to provide adequate water through a repeat of the driest episode in instrumented history. However, the top-level state water plan does not take into consideration potential declines in surface water supply as a function of a drying climate and associated extreme weather events. In that context we review some of the climate factors that may have a large impact on water management. To illustrate how modeled predictions might serve to increase Texas water resiliency, we align these parameters the needs of a prototypical large surface water supplier. We examine the stakeholder perspective on different kinds of climate data, including actionable, incompatible, and unavailable information. Finally, we provide an example of a recent study that attempts to translate climate projections into actionable management information. While it is clear that stakeholders value the predictive capability contained in climate model outputs, we find that currently available data are generally insufficient for supporting true resilience across numerous economic sectors. Indeed, this requires a new suite of tools that provide both short and long-term, stakeholder-specific adaptive planning capacity.en_US
dc.description.departmentOffice of the VP for Researchen_US
dc.identifier.other2019AGUFMPA33C1114N
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/84308
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11296
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlanet Texas 2050 - Published Researchen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectclimate modelsen_US
dc.subjectwater planningen_US
dc.titleAssessment of Texas water resources in the context of changing climate: toward alignment of research agendas and capabilities with stakeholder needs.en_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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