Sensitivity of future U.S. Water shortages to socioeconomic and climate drivers: a case study in Georgia using an integrated human-earth system modeling framework
Abstract
Here, one of the most important interactions between humans and climate is in the demand and supply of water. Humans withdraw, use, and consume water and return waste water to the environment for a variety of socioeconomic purposes, including domestic, commercial, and industrial use, production of energy resources and cooling thermal-electric power plants, and growing food, fiber, and chemical feed stocks for human consumption. Uncertainties in the future human demand for water interact with future impacts of climatic change on water supplies to impinge on water management decisions at the international, national, regional, and local level, but until recently tools were not available to assess the uncertainties surrounding these decisions. This paper demonstrates the use of a multi-model framework in a structured sensitivity analysis to project and quantify the sensitivity of future deficits in surface water in the context of climate and socioeconomic change for all U.S. states and sub-basins. The framework treats all sources of water demand and supply consistently from the world to local level. The paper illustrates the capabilities of the framework with sample results for a river sub-basin in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1250380
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1251562
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-105762
Journal ID: ISSN 0165-0009; PII: 1602
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Climatic Change
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Climatic Change Journal Volume: 136 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0165-0009
- Publisher:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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Scott, Michael J., Daly, Don S., Hejazi, Mohamad I., Kyle, G. Page, Liu, Lu, McJeon, Haewon C., Mundra, Anupriya, Patel, Pralit L., Rice, Jennie S., and Voisin, Nathalie. Sensitivity of future U.S. Water shortages to socioeconomic and climate drivers: a case study in Georgia using an integrated human-earth system modeling framework. Netherlands: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1602-8.
Scott, Michael J., Daly, Don S., Hejazi, Mohamad I., Kyle, G. Page, Liu, Lu, McJeon, Haewon C., Mundra, Anupriya, Patel, Pralit L., Rice, Jennie S., & Voisin, Nathalie. Sensitivity of future U.S. Water shortages to socioeconomic and climate drivers: a case study in Georgia using an integrated human-earth system modeling framework. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1602-8
Scott, Michael J., Daly, Don S., Hejazi, Mohamad I., Kyle, G. Page, Liu, Lu, McJeon, Haewon C., Mundra, Anupriya, Patel, Pralit L., Rice, Jennie S., and Voisin, Nathalie. Sat .
"Sensitivity of future U.S. Water shortages to socioeconomic and climate drivers: a case study in Georgia using an integrated human-earth system modeling framework". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1602-8.
@article{osti_1250380,
title = {Sensitivity of future U.S. Water shortages to socioeconomic and climate drivers: a case study in Georgia using an integrated human-earth system modeling framework},
author = {Scott, Michael J. and Daly, Don S. and Hejazi, Mohamad I. and Kyle, G. Page and Liu, Lu and McJeon, Haewon C. and Mundra, Anupriya and Patel, Pralit L. and Rice, Jennie S. and Voisin, Nathalie},
abstractNote = {Here, one of the most important interactions between humans and climate is in the demand and supply of water. Humans withdraw, use, and consume water and return waste water to the environment for a variety of socioeconomic purposes, including domestic, commercial, and industrial use, production of energy resources and cooling thermal-electric power plants, and growing food, fiber, and chemical feed stocks for human consumption. Uncertainties in the future human demand for water interact with future impacts of climatic change on water supplies to impinge on water management decisions at the international, national, regional, and local level, but until recently tools were not available to assess the uncertainties surrounding these decisions. This paper demonstrates the use of a multi-model framework in a structured sensitivity analysis to project and quantify the sensitivity of future deficits in surface water in the context of climate and socioeconomic change for all U.S. states and sub-basins. The framework treats all sources of water demand and supply consistently from the world to local level. The paper illustrates the capabilities of the framework with sample results for a river sub-basin in the U.S. state of Georgia.},
doi = {10.1007/s10584-016-1602-8},
journal = {Climatic Change},
number = 2,
volume = 136,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Sat Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Sat Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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