| Recent Postings of RISA Publications |
-California Applications Program (CAP)
-Carolina's Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA)
-Climate Impacts Group (CIG)
-Intermountain West Climate Outlook - designed to provide the latest climate information in a document aimed at water managers.
-Pacific Islands RISA
-Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC)
-Southwest Climate Outlook - designed to provide regional climate information in a simple document aimed at water managers.
-CLIMAS
-Western Water Assessment (WWA)
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Water Management | Public Health | Agriculture & Ranching | Decision Support
Regional Forecasting & Paleo-Climate | Forest Fire & Forest Management
Ecosystem Management | Global Change | NOAA Publications | White Papers
Additional Publications
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The list below includes examples of select articles from different regions published during Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 that have been communicated to stakeholders in their respective region or nationally.
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| Water Management |
Andreadis, K. M., and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2006. Trends in 20th century drought over the continental United States. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L10403, doi:10.1029/2006GL025711.
Bales, R.C., N.P. Molotch, T.H. Painter, M.D. Dettinger, R. Rice and J. Dozier, 2006: Mountain hydrology of the western United States. Water Resources Research, 42, W08432, doi:10.1029/2005WR004387, 13 p.
Browning- Aiken, A., R.G. Varady, D. Goodrich, H. Richter, T. Sprouse, and W.J. Shuttleworth. 2006. Integrating science and policy for water management: a case study of the Upper San Pedro River Basin. In Hydrology and Water Law - Bridging the Gap: A Case Study of HELP Basins, ed. by J.S. Wallace and P. Wouters. pp. 24-59. In Water Law and Policy Series, ed. P. Wouters and S. Vinogradov, IWA Publishing.
Carbone, G.J. and K. Dow. 2005. Water Resource Management and
Drought Forecasts in South Carolina. Journal of the American Water
Resources Association 41(1):145-155.
Cayan, D., M. Dettinger, I. Stewart and N. Knowles. 2005. Recent changes toward earlier springs---Early signs of climate warming in western North America. WatershedManagement Council Networker. 13:3-7.
Dettinger, M.D. 2005. From climate-change spaghetti to climate- change distributions for 21st Century California. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 3(1).
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol3/iss1/art4.
Florsheim, J. and M. Dettinger. 2005. Influence of anthropogenic alterations on geomorphic response to climate variations and change in San Francisco Bay-Delta and watershed. Watershed Management Council Networker. 13:13-16.
Georgakakos, K.P., N.E. Graham, T.M. Carpenter, A.P. Georgakakos and H. Yao. 2005. Integrating Climate-Hydrology Forecasts and Multi-Objective Reservoir Management for Northern California. EOS, 86(12):122-127.
Hamlet, A. F., and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2005. Production of temporally consistent gridded precipitation and temperature fields for the continental U.S. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6(3):330-336.
Hanson, R.T. and M.D. Dettinger. 2005. Ground-water/Surface-water responses to Global Climate Simulations, Santa Clara-Calleguas Basin, Ventura County, California, 1950-93. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 43(3):517-536.
Hidalgo, H.G., D.R Cayan, and M.D. Dettinger. 2005. Sources of variability of
evapotranspiration in California. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6:3-19
Jacobs, K. L., G. M. Garfin, and B. J. Morehouse. 2005. Climate science and drought
planning: the Arizona Experience. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
41:437-445.
Miralles-Wilhelm, F., P. J. Trimble, G. Podesta, D. Letson and K. Broad. 2005. Climate-Based Estimation of Hydrologic lnflow into Lake Okeechobee, Florida. J. of Water Resources Planning and Management. 131(5): 394-401.
Mote, P. W. 2006. Climate-driven variability and trends in mountain snowpack in western North America. Journal of Climate 19(23): 6209-6220.
Mote, P. W., A. F. Hamlet, M. Clark, and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2005. Declining mountain snowpack in western North America. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 86(1):39-49.
Peterson, D.H., R. Smith, S. Hager, J. Hicke, M. Dettinger, and K. Huber. 2005. River chemistry as a monitor of Yosemite Park mountain hydroclimates. Eos, Transactions of American Geophysical Union. 86: 285-288.
Ralph, F.M., P.J. Neiman, G.A. Wick, S.I. Gutman, M.D. Dettinger, D.R. Cayan and A.B. White, 2006: Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L13801, 5pp, doi:10.1029/2006GL026689
Regonda, S., B. Rajagopalan, M. Clark, and J. Pitlick. 2005. Seasonal cycle shifts in hydroclimatology over the Western US. J. Climate, 18:372-384.
Salathé, E. P. 2005. Downscaling simulations of future global climate with application to hydrologic modeling. International Journal of Climatology. 25:419-436.
Slaughter, R. 2007. Water, adaptation, and property rights on the Snake and Klamath Rivers. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 43(2):1-14. DOI: 10.1111 / j.1752-1688.2007.00024.x.
Sonnett, J., B. J. Morehouse, T. D. Finger, G. Garfin, and N. Rattray. 2005. Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002?2004. Global Environmental Change. 16:95-113.
Steinemann, A. C. 2006. Using climate forecasts for drought water management. Journal of Applied Meteorology 45(10): 1353-1361.
Steinemann, A. C., and L. F. N. Cavalcanti. 2006. Developing multiple indicators and triggers for drought plans. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 132(3):164-174.
Varady, R.G., and A. Browning-Aiken. 2005. The birth of a Mexican watershed council in the San Pedro basin in Sonora. In Planeacion y Cooperacion Transfronteriza en la Frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos. Transboundary Planning and Cooperation in the U.S. - Mexico Border Region, ed. by C. Fuentes and S. Pena. pp. 165-183.
Whitely Binder, L. C. 2006. Climate change and watershed planning in Washington State. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 42(4):915-926.
Wilder, M., and S. Whiteford. 2006. Flowing uphill toward money: Groundwater management and ejidal producers in Mexico's free trade environment," in Laura Randall, ed., Changing Structure of Mexico: Political and Social and Economic Prospects. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Yarnal, B., A.L. Heasley, R.E. O'Connor, K. Dow, and C.L. Jocoy. 2006. "The Potential Use of Climate Forecasts by Community Water System Managers." Land Use and Water Resources Research. Vol. 6. Available on line at http://www.luwrr.com/contents.html
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Public Health | Burns, J.C., D.R. Cayan, G. Tong, C. L. Turner, H. Shike, O. Kawasaki, Y. Nakamura, M. Yashiro, and H. Yanagawa. 2005. Seasonality and temporal clustering of Kawasaki Syndrome in Japan, 1987-2000. Epidemiology 16(2):220-225. |
Agriculture & Ranching |
Cabrera, V.E., N.E. Breuer, P.E. Hildebrand and D. Letson. 2005. The dynamic north-Florida dairy farm model: a user-friendly computerized tool for increasing profits while minimizing environmental impacts. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 49:286-308.
Cabrera, V., C. W. Fraisse, D. Letson, G. Podesta, J. Novak. 2006. Impact of climate information on reducing farm risk by optimizing crop insurance strategy. Transactions of the ASAE 49(4):1223-1233.
Cabrera, V.E., P.E. Hildebrand and J.W. Jones. 2005. Modeling the effect of household composition on the welfare of limited-resource farmers in Coastal Cafrete, Peru. Agricultural Systems. 86: 207-222.
Fraisse, C. W., N. Breuer, J. G. Bellow, V. Cabrera, U. Hatch, G. Hoogenboom, K. Ingram, J. W. Jones, J. O?Brien, J. Paz, D. Zierden. 2006. AgClimate: A climate forecast information system for agricultural risk management in the southeastern USA. Computers & Electronics in Agriculture 53(1):13-27.
Guerra, L.C., G. Hoogenboom, J.E. Hook, D.L. Thomas, V.K. Boken, and K.A. Harrison. 2005. Evaluation of on-farm irrigation applications using the simulation model EPIC. Irrigation Science. 23: 171-181.
Mavromatis, T. & Jagtap, S. S. 2005. Estimating solar radiation for crop modeling using temperature data from urban and rural stations. Inter Research Climate Research 29(3):233-243
Shin, D. W., J. G. Bellow, T. E. LaRow, S. Cocke and J. J. O'Brien 2006. The role of an advanced land model in seasonal dynamical downscaling for crop model application, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45(5): 686-701.
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Decision Support |
Cash, David. W, Jonathan C. Borck, and Anthony G. Patt. 2006. Countering the Loading-Dock Approach to Linking Science and Decision Making: Comparative Analysis of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Forecasting Systems. Science, Technology and Human Values. 31: 465-494.
Cash, D.W., W. Adger, F.Berkes, P.Garden, L. Lebel, P. Olsson, L. Pritchard, and O. Young. 2006. Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society. 11(2): 8.
Clark, W. C. 2007. Sustainability science: A room of its own. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(6):1737-1738.
Kasperson, R.E. and K. Dow (coordinating lead authors), E. Archer, D. Caceres, T. Downing, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke, G. Han, K. Iyengar, C. Vogel, K. Wilson, G. Ziervogel (lead authors). 2006. "Vulnerable Peoples and Places." In The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Conditions and Trends Volume, 143-164 (chap 6). Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Manuel-Navarrete, D., J.J. Gómez, G. Gallopin. 2007. Syndromes of sustainability of development for assessing coupled human-environmental systems vulnerability. The case of hydrometeorological extreme events in Central America and the Caribbean. Global Environmental Change 17(2): 207-217.
Miles, E. L., A. K. Snover, L. C. Whitely Binder, E. Sarachik, P. W. Mote, and N. J. Mantua. 2006. An approach to designing a National Climate Service. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences 103(52):19616?19623.
van Kerkhoff, L. and L. Lebel. 2006. Linking knowledge and action for sustainable development. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31:1?33.
Webster, P. J., T. Hopson, C. Hoyos, A. Subbiah, H-. R. Chang, R. Grossman. 2006. A three-tier overlapping prediction scheme: Tools for strategic and tactical decisions in the developing world. Predictability of Weather and Climate, Ed. T. N. Palmer, Cambridge University Press.
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Regional Forecasting & Paleo-Climate |
Alfaro, E.J., A. Gershunov and D. Cayan, 2006: Prediction of summer maximum and minimum temperature over the central and western United States: The role of soil moisture and sea surface temperature. J. Climate, 19(8), 1407-1421, doi: 10.1175/JCLI3665.1.
Cayan, D.R., P.D. Bromirski, K. Hayhoe, M. Tyree, M.D. Dettinger and R.E. Flick, 2006: Climate Change Projections of Sea Level Extremes along the California Coast. Submitted to: Climatic Change, 28 pages, July 2006.
Garcia y Garcia, A. and G. Hoogenboom. 2005. Evaluation of an improved daily solar radiation generator for the southeastern USA. Climate Research. 29:91-102.
Letson, David, G.P. Podest6, Carlos Messina and R. Andr6s Ferreyra. 2005. The Uncertain Value of Perfect ENSO Phase Forecasts. Climatic Change. 69: 163-196.
Strom, A., R.C. Francis, N.J. Mantua, E.L. Miles, and D.L. Peterson. 2005. Preserving low-frequency climate signals in growth reconstructions of geoduck clams (Panopea abrupta). PALAEO 03692: 1-12.
Voisin, N., A. F. Hamlet, L.P. Graham, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2006. The role of climate forecasts in western U.S. power planning. Journal of Applied Meteorology 45(5):653-673.
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Forest Fire & Forest Management |
Garfin, G., M. Lenart, T. Brown, R. Ochoa and H. Hockenberry. 2005. Fire Season Could Mean Double Trouble for West. Wildfire, May 1, 2005.
Gedalof, Z. M., D. L. Peterson, and N. J. Mantua. 2005. Atmospheric, climatic and ecological controls on extreme wildfire years in the northwestern United States. Ecological Applications. 15(1):154-174.
Lenart, M. 2006. Collaborative Stewardship to Prevent Wildfires. Environment. 48(7) ; 8-21.
Littell, J.S., and D. L. Peterson. 2005. A method for estimating vulnerability of Douglas-fir growth to climate change in the northwestern U.S. Forestry Chronicle. 81(3):369-374.
McKenzie, D., A. E. Hessl, and L-K. B. Kellogg. 2006. Using neutral models to identify constraints on low-severity fire regimes. Landscape Ecology 21:139-152.
Molotch, N. P., and R. C. Bales. 2006. Air quality effects from southeast Arizona wildfires. Hydrological Processes.
Sonnett, J., B. J. Morehouse, T. D. Finger, G. Garfin, and N. Rattray. 2006. Air quality effects from southeast Arizona wildfires. Global Environmental Change.
Srivastava, R., and L. Laurian. 2006. Air quality effects from southeast Arizona wildfires. Disaster Prevention and Management.
Westerling, A.L., H.G. Hidalgo, D.R. Cayan, T.W. Swetnam. 2006. Warming and earlier spring increases western U.S. forest wildfire activity. Science Express. July, 6, 2006.
Wiedinmyer, C., B. Quayle, C. Geron, A. Belote, D. McKenzie, X. Zhang, S. O'Neill, and K.K. Wynne. 2006. Estimating emissions from fires in North America for air quality modeling. Atmospheric Environment 40(19):3419-3432.
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Ecosystem Management |
Malamud-Roam, F., M.D. Dettinger, B.L. Ingram, M. Hughes and J. Florsheim, 2007: Holocene climates and connections between between the San Francisco Bay estuary and its watershed - A Review. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 5(1), 28 p. http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol5/iss1/art3
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Global Change |
Salathé, E. P. 2006. Influences of a shift in North Pacific storm tracks on western North American precipitation under global warming. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L19820, doi:10.1029/2006GL026882, 2006.
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NOAA Publications |

Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program Brochure (pdf) - general information about the RISA program.
Report: Enhancing Decision-Making Through Integrated Climate Research (pdf) - summary of discussions
held at the RISA-sponsored exploratory workshop, Enhancing Decision-Making Through Integrated
Climate Research (2004)
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White Papers |
Early RISA History Paper by Roger Pulwarty
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