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Location Folder Show Tree ROOT _ScienceBase Catalog __National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers ___South Central CASC ____FY 2015 Projects Assessing the State of Water Resource Knowledge and Tools for Future Planning in the Lower Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Basin Assessing the State of Water Resource Knowledge and Tools for Future Planning in the Upper Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Basin Climate Training for Native Tribes of Louisiana and New Mexico Developing and Analyzing Statistically Downscaled Climate Projections for the South Central U.S. Helping Fire Professionals Understand and Manage Changing Fire Regimes More... Filters Date Range Past year (1) Past month (0) Past week (0) Past day (0) Custom range... To   Search Extensions Citation (5) Budget (1) Project (1) Types Citation (5) Map Service (1) OGC WFS Layer (1) OGC WMS Layer (1) OGC WMS Service (1) Contacts Tyson Ochsner Erik Krueger Katharine Hayhoe Renee McPherson Jung-Hee Ryu More... Categories Publication (5) Project (1) Tag Types CMS Themes (1) CMS Topics (1) Science Themes (2) Organization (2) CMS Status (1) Community (1) Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather (1) More... Tag Schemes https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/ScienceThemes (2) https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/WRET/CMS_Themes/CASC_CMS_Themes (1) https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/WRET/CMS_Topics/CASC_CMS_Topics (1) https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/Project/OrganizationName (2) https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/DroughtFireandExtremeWeather (1) https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/Project/FiscalYear (1) https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/NCCWSC/Project/OrganizationType (1) More... View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV Browse Folder

Statistically downscaled precipitation sensitivity to gridded observation data and downscaling technique Future climate projections illuminate our understanding of the climate system and generate data products often used in climate impact assessments. Statistical downscaling (SD) is commonly used to address biases in global climate models (GCM) and to translate large‐scale projected changes to the higher spatial resolutions desired for regional and local scale studies. However, downscaled climate projections are sensitive to method configuration and input data source choices made during the downscaling process that can affect a projection's ultimate suitability for particular impact assessments. Quantifying how changes in inputs or parameters affect SD‐generated projections of precipitation is critical for improving... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Soil Moisture as an Indicator of Growing-Season Herbaceous Fuel Moisture and Curing Rate in Grasslands Soil moisture depletion during the growing season can induce plant water stress, thereby driving declines in grassland fuel moisture and accelerating curing. These drying and curing dynamics and their dependencies on soil moisture are inadequately represented in fire danger models. To elucidate these relationships, grassland fuelbed characteristics and soil moisture were monitored in nine patches of tallgrass prairie under patch-burn management in Oklahoma, USA, during two growing seasons. This study period included a severe drought (in 2012), which resulted in a large wildfire outbreak near the study site. Fuel moisture of the mixed live and dead herbaceous fuels (MFM) clearly tracked soil moisture, expressed as... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation High-Resolution Precipitation Projections for the South Central U.S. Development and Evaluation of Soil Moisture-Based Indices for Agricultural Drought Monitoring Abstract (from Science Direct): Agricultural drought is characterized by low soil moisture levels that negatively affect agricultural production, but in situ soil moisture measurements are largely absent from indices commonly used to describe agricultural drought. Instead, many indices incorporate weather-derived soil moisture estimates, which is necessary, in part, because the relationships between in situ soil moisture and agricultural-drought impacts are not well quantified. Our objective was to use in situ soil moisture data from monitoring networks in Oklahoma and West Texas to identify a soil moisture-based agricultural drought index that is (i) strongly related to crop-yield anomaly across networks, (ii)... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, South Central CASC Developing a hybrid drought index: Precipitation Evapotranspiration Difference Condition Index Drought indices are widely used for drought quantification. The objective of this study is to introduce a hybrid drought index, the Precipitation Evapotranspiration Difference Condition Index (PEDCI), and to compare its performance in Oklahoma to existing drought indices. The PEDCI is based on a simple water balance model, which accounts for the difference between water supply (precipitation) and water demand (potential evapotranspiration). While it is similar in this respect to the Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and the Palmer Drought Severity Index, it uses a different method to normalize the index in time and space which was inspired by Vegetation Condition Index. The performance... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Assessing the State of Water Resource Knowledge and Tools for Future Planning in the Upper Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Basin The Rio Grande-Rio Bravo River is the second longest river in the US and is a critical drinking water source for more than 13 million people. It flows south from the snow-capped mountains of Colorado through the New Mexico desert, forms the border between Texas and Mexico, and empties into the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas. The multi-national, multi-state, ecologically diverse nature of this river makes management of the resource a complex task, especially in the context of more frequent droughts, changes in land use patterns, and increasing water use needs. The purpose of this project was to review scientific monitoring and research reports and provide an overview of the state of the knowledge of the Upper... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, CASC, Completed, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, All tags... Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, South Central, South Central CASC, State of the Science, State of the Science, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags Environmental flows in the Rio Grande – Rio Bravo basin The Rio Grande/Bravo is an arid river basin shared by the United States and Mexico, the fifth-longest river in North America, and home to more than 10.4 million people. By crossing landscapes and political boundaries, the Rio Grande/Bravo brings together cultures, societies, ecosystems, and economies, thereby forming a complex social-ecological system. The Rio Grande/Bravo supplies water for the human activities that take place within its territory. While there have been efforts to implement environmental flows (flows necessary to sustain riparian and aquatic ecosystems and human activities), a systematic and whole-basin analysis of these efforts that conceptualizes the Rio Grande/Bravo as a single, complex social-ecological... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation