WATER AFFILIATES GROUP

Both the natural and socioeconomic systems that we depend upon are resilient to extreme weather events, and their effects on water supply and flooding... Revolutionize the physical understanding, observations, weather predictions, seasonal outlooks and climate projections of extreme events in Western North America, including atmospheric rivers, the North American summer monsoon and their impacts on floods, droughts, hydropower, ecosystems and the economy... This progress has inspired recognition that major benefits could accrue with establishment of a long-term research and application capability focused on western weather and water issues, with special emphasis on atmospheric rivers. The Western States Water Council has formally recommended focused research, monitoring, prediction and climate trend detection tailored to the Western U.S. Our response to these findings and advances, and this recommendation, is establishment of a Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes led by..

Primary location: La Jolla United States