Presenters: Bureau of Reclamation – Sheri Looper and Katie Schultz: Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CWMP) and Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, PhD, PE: Technical Service Center
The 2021 West-Wide Assessment provides estimates of changes in temperature, precipitation, snowpack, and streamflow across the West using consistent methodology, similar to previous SECURE Water Act Reports. For this report, additional drought analyses based on paleohydrology (using tree rings) was performed. These results will enable water managers to compare the frequency and severity of droughts that occurred several hundred years ago to projections of future droughts and develop water management strategies in time to take action.
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