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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Water and climate in the western United States. Boulder, Colo : University Press of Colorado, c2003 (OCoLC)606981699 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William M Lewis |
| ISBN: | 0870817272 9780870817274 |
| OCLC Number: | 51478208 |
| Description: | x, 294 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Predicting climate variations in the American West : what are our prospects? / Randall M. Dole -- Climate variability in the West : complex spatial structure associated with topography, and observational issues / Kelly T. Redmond -- Dendrochronological evidence for long-term hydroclimatic variability / Connie A. Woodhouse -- Acquisition, management, and dissemination of climate data / Rene Reitsma and Phil Pasteris -- Use of weather and climate information in forecasting water supply in the western United States / Martyn P. Clark ... [et al.] -- Assessing the effects of climate change on the water resources of the western United States / Kenneth M. Strzepek and David N. Yates -- Improving water-resource system performance through long-range climate forecasts : the Pacific northwest experience / Dennis P. Lettenmaier and Alan F. Hamlet -- Has modeling of water resources on the basis of climate and hydrology reached its full potential? / John Labadie and Luis Garcia -- What can water managers do about climate variability and change? / Eugene Stakhiv -- Management of Colorado River resources / Terrance J. Fulp -- Water development and management along the South Platte River of Colorado / Tom Cech -- Can climate predictions be of practical use in western water management? / C. Booth Wallentine and Dave Matthews -- A changing geography : growth, land use, and water in the interior West / William R. Travis -- Constraints of law and policy on the management of Western water / David H. Getches -- Economic and institutional strategies for adapting to water resource effects of climate change / John Loomis, Jessica Koteen, and Brian Hurd -- Climate variability : social, policy, and institutional issues / Kathleen Miller and Steven Gloss -- Western water resources and "climate of opinion" variables / Patricia Nelson Limerick. |
| Responsibility: | William M. Lewis Jr., editor. |
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