AWRA 2025 Spring Conference: Development Risks & Challenges in Changing Climate Conditions

The American Water Resources Association (AWRA) 2025 Spring Conference: Development Risks & Challenges in Changing Climate Conditions is co-hosted with the AWRA Alaska State Section. The main object of the conference is for participants to connect and contribute to important conversations about impacts to the cultural and socioeconomic health of the planet and all life as we know it related to water and changing climate conditions. Climate change is increasingly causing severe weather events, changes in weather patterns and altering hydrologic cycles. These increasing uncertainties are posing significant risks to current and future development.

GEWEX Session
Topical Session C – A Broad-Based Community Approach to Modeling, Observations, and Prediction of Water Resources Across Climate Timescales over the continental United States

Session Description:
The Global Energy and Water Exchanges  (GEWEX) core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is  developing a so-called Regional Hydroclimate Project (H2US) over the continental US   to bring the observational, modeling, and social science communities together to advance the state of the science and our predictive capabilities to better characterize the water, energy, and carbon cycles. Submissions are invited that explore co-design, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to water cycle science for a better understanding and quantification of water resources now and in the future. Especially relevant are papers that explore ways to evaluate, improve and integrate existing surface observational networks across regional to continental scales, in the context of terrestrial-based and spaceborne remote sensing, to support of Earth system modeling of the water-cycle, and regional, national and global operational weather and hydroclimate monitoring and modelling efforts. An outcome of this work is envisioned as a ‘Digital Earth’ representation of the water cycle over the US to better support the water resources community.

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