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A Twenty-first-century California Observing Network For Monitoring Extreme Weather Events

Abstract

During Northern Hemisphere winters, the West Coast of North America is battered by extratropical storms. The impact of these storms is of paramount concern to California, where aging water supply and flood protection infrastructures are challenged by increased standards for urban flood protection, an unusually variable weather regime, and projections of climate change. Additionally, there are inherent conflicts between releasing water to provide flood protection and storing water to meet requirements for the water supply, water quality, hydropower generation, water temperature and flow for at-risk species, and recreation. To improve reservoir management and meet the increasing demands on water, improved forecasts of precipitation, especially during extreme events, are required. Here, the authors describe how California is addressing their most important and costliest environmental issue—water management—in part, by installing a state-of-the-art observing system to better track the area’s most severe wintertime storms.

Article / Publication Data
Active/Online
YES
Volume
30
Available Metadata
Accepted On
May 10, 2013
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Fiscal Year
Peer Reviewed
YES
Publication Name
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Published On
August 01, 2013
Final Online Publication On
August 01, 2013
Publisher Name
American Meteorological Society
Print Volume
30
Print Number
8
Page Range
1585–1603
Submitted On
September 14, 2012
Project Type
LAB SUPPORTED
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