Week 13 Reading

Case Studies

Overview

Steinschneider et al. (2015)

Discussion Questions

  1. What are the uncertainties the paper mentioned and which process deals with which type of uncertainty?
  2. What are the differences between conventional long-term planning and the approach the authors applied?
  3. Are climate models meaningful for consideration even with model bias?
  4. The authors select the plan with the smallest elevation change among those exceeding R-Score > 0.70, rather than the plan with the highest R-Score. Is this a justified approach?

Before class, think of one discussion question and be ready to present.

References

Steinschneider, S., McCrary, R., Wi, S., Mulligan, K., Mearns, L. O., & Brown, C. M. (2015). Expanded decision-scaling framework to select robust long-term water-system plans under hydroclimatic uncertainties. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 141(11). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000536