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Dozier , Jeff 1 1 Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California at Santa Barbara In the 21st century, a crucial question for mountain snowpacks worldwide is: How do we reliably predict snowmelt runoff and associated demand as climate changes, populations grow, land use evolves, and...

Doesken , Nolan 1 1 Colorado State Climatologist and Senior Research Associate, Director, Fort Collins Weather Station Underlying most work in hydrologic science is a basic knowledge of climatic characteristics of precipitation -- the quantity, frequency, intensity, duration of precipitation as well as information on how precipitation varies geographically, seasonally,...

Dairaku , Koji 1 ; Pielke Sr. , Roger A 2 ; Beltran-Przekurat , Adriana B 3 ; Iizuka , Satoshi 4 ; Sasaki , Wataru 5 1 CIRES, University of Colorado 2 CIRES, University of Colorado 3 CIRES, University of Colorado 4 National Research Institute for Earth Science and...

Cullis , James D 1 1 University of Colorado Previous studies in Â鶹¹ÙÍø Creek, CO, have shown that maximum shear stress is a significant factor in determining the abundance of the nuisance diatom Didymosphenia geminata. The aim of this study was to investigate this observation further in order to determine...

Crouch , Caitlin 1 ; Todd , Andrew 2 ; McKnight , Diane 3 ; Ling , Alison 4 ; Robinson , Patrick 5 1 INSTAAR, CU Environmental Studies Graduate Program 2 INSTAAR 3 INSTAAR, CU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 4 Graduate Student, CU Department of Civil and...

Cowie , Rory M 1 ; Williams , Mark W 2 1 University of Colorado and INSTAAR 2 University of Colorado and INSTAAR An outstanding question for snowmelt-dominated watersheds of the western US is the response of stream flow to changes in climate. We know little about mountain aquifers because...

Cochrane , Jessica J 1 ; Ge , Shemin 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado It is widely accepted that the global climate is changing, yet our understanding of the effect of climate change on groundwater resources is limited. Many questions remain regarding the size of groundwater...

Caldwell , Jason 1 ; Rajagopalan , Balaji 2 1 CIRES/University of Colorado, Â鶹¹ÙÍø, CO 80309 USA 2 Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Â鶹¹ÙÍø, CO 80309 USA Water allocations in the Central Valley Project (CVP) of California require the consideration of short- and long-term needs...

Blom , Tevis 1 1 University Colorado Â鶹¹ÙÍø April 1st Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is a useful indicator of potential water resources along Colorado’s Front Range. This is especially so at altitude where snowpack serves as a seasonal storage reservoir. Climate change in the 20th century has the potential to...

Barstow , Christina 1 ; Chatterley , Christie 2 ; Gold , Max 3 1 CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 2 CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø 3 CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø In the Republic of Rwanda, a small landlocked nation in central Africa, potable water is rare. With about nine million people, Rwanda is the most densely populated nation on the...