References

Water Resources Working Group

  • Frank Belock, San Diego County Water Authority
  • Dr. Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego; U.S. Geological Survey 
  • Dr. Tapash Das, CH2M Hill
  • Dr. Michael Dettinger, U.S. Geological Survey; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
  • Jason Foster, San Diego County Water Authority
  • Armin Munévar, CH2M Hill

Water Resources References

Barnett, T.P., D.W. Pierce, H.G. Hidalgo, C. Bonfils, B.D. Santer, T. Das, G. Bala, A.W. Wood, T. Nozawa, A.A. Mirin, D.R. Cayan, and M.D. Dettinger, 2008: Human-induced changes in the hydrology of the western United States. Science, 319, 1080-1083.

Bonfils, C., B.D. Santer, D.W. Pierce, H.G. Hidalgo, G. Bala, T. Das, T.P. Barnett, D.R. Cayan, C. Doutriaux, A.W. Wood, A. Mirin, and T. Nozawa, 2008: Detection and Attribution of Temperature Changes in the Mountainous Western United States. Journal of Climate, 21, 6404-6424, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2397.1.

Cayan, D.R., T. Das, D.W. Pierce, T.P. Barnett, M. Tyree, and A. Gershunov, 2010: Future dryness in the southwest US and the hydrology of the early 21st century drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 21271-21276, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0912391107.

Christensen, N., A.W. Wood, N. Voisin, D.P. Lettenmaier, and R.N. Palmer, 2004: The effects of climate change on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River basin. Climatic Change, 62, 337-363.

Christensen, N.S. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2007: A multimodel ensemble approach to assessment of climate change impacts on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River Basin.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 1417-1434.

Cohen, R., B. Nelson, and G. Wolff, 2004: Energy Down the Drain: The Hidden Costs of California's Water Supply. 78 pp, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pacific Institute.

Dettinger, M.D., F.M. Ralph, T. Das, P.J. Neiman, and D.R. Cayan, 2011: Atmospheric rivers, floods and the water resources of California. Water, 3, 445-478, doi: 10.3390/w3020445.

Dettinger, M.D., W. Bennett, D. Cayan, J. Florsheim, M. Hughes, B.L. Ingram, A. Jassby, N. Knowles, F. Malamud-Roam, D. Peterson, K. Redmond, and L. Smith, 2003: Climate science issues and needs of the CALFED Bay-Delta program. 4 pp, American Meteorological Society.

Maurer, E.P., H.G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M.D. Dettinger, and D.R. Cayan, 2010: The utility of daily large-scale climate data in the assessment of climate change impacts on daily streamflow in California.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14, 1125-1138, doi: 10.5194/hess-14-1125-2010.

Milly, P.C.D., K.A. Dunne, and A.V. Vecchia, 2005: Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate. NATURE, 438, 347-350, doi: 10.1038/nature04312.

Pierce, D.W., T.P. Barnett, H.G. Hidalgo, T. Das, C. Bonfils, B.D. Santer, G. Bala, M.D. Dettinger, D.R. Cayan, A. Mirin, A.W. Wood, and T. Nozawa, 2008: Attribution of declining western U.S. snowpack to human effects. Journal of Climate, 21, 6425-6444, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2405.1.

San Diego County Water Authority: Imported Supplies. Retrieved from http://www.sdcwa.org/imported-supplies.

San Diego County Water Authority: San Diego County’s water sources. Retrieved from http://www.sdcwa.org/san-diego-county-water-sources.

Seager, R., M. Ting, I. Held, Y. Kushnir, J. Lu, G. Vecchi, H.P. Huang, N. Harnik, A. Leetmaa, N.C. Lau, C. Li, J. Velez, and N. Naik, 2007: Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America. Science, 1-10, doi: 10.1126/science.1139601.

Tapash, D., D.W. Pierce, D.R. Cayan, J.A. Vano, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2011: The importance of warm season warming to western U.S. streamflow changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, 1-5, doi: 10.1029/2011GL049660.