Western Water Assessment: Innovative Research In Partnership With Decision Makers
Dilling, Lisa 1 ; Rick, Ursula 2 ; Lukas, Jeff 3 ; McNie, Elizabeth 4 ; Arens, Seth5
2 Presenting Author
1 Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado
2 Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado
3 Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado
4 Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado
5 Western Water Assessment, CIRES, University of Colorado
Western Water Assessment (WWA) is a NOAA-funded Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program that conducts innovative research in partnership with decision makers in the Rocky Mountain West, helping them make the best use of science to manage for climate impacts. We provide an overview of WWA’s vision for the next four years and our three research themes: climate vulnerability and adaptive capacity, extremes and climate risk management, and designing organizations and networks for usable science. WWA has begun new research for decision support in the areas of climate, extreme events and usable science. These include evaluation of the usefulness of remotely sensed spatial snow data to water managers and to improve stream flow forecasts, analysis of the research co-production process, improvement of drought early warning systems and climate risk management in the agriculture sector, to name a few.