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Pub. Date
2008.
Description
This memo presents the results of a literature search conducted in May-June 2007 as a preliminary step toward the study of how climate change-induced variations in the hydrograph (i.e. earlier snowmelt and peak flows) may impact the temporal elements of water rights.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This memo presents the results of a literature search conducted in May-June 2007 as a preliminary step toward the study of how climate change-induced variations in the hydrograph (i.e. earlier snowmelt and peak flows) may impact the temporal elements of water rights.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
For water providers and others in the Rocky Mountain West who depend on the pulse of runoff from the melting snowpack from April through July, snowpack monitoring is drought monitoring. A well-below-average snowpack as measured by snow-water equivalent (SWE) is a harbinger of not only low water supply but also other drought impacts, such as increased fire risk and below-normal summer soil moisture. However, the snowpack is complex, varying...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The paper reviews the potential for administrative problems/disputes associated with western prior appropriation water rights in those sub-regions experiencing increasingly early spring snowmelt and the lengthening of growing seasons. In those areas, potential problems of two general types are envisioned. First, in those states that link water rights to specific calendar dates (that are becoming increasingly out-of-step with natural hydrographs),...
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Several studies demonstrate that the hydrographs of many western rivers are changing in response to climate change, with one of the most pronounced changes being earlier runoff. This trend is most pronounced in low elevation basins. For example, in many basins of the Pacific Northwest, annual spring snowmelt is now occurring more than 20 days earlier than a half-century ago. This trend is less evident in high elevation watersheds, but even in those...
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