Tag Archives: water modeling

10 Lessons from a Collaborative Modeling Approach to discussing more adaptive Lake Powell and Lake Mead operations

Posted on July 21, 2024 by Christine Parisek

by David E. Rosenberg Water models serve a variety of purposes. Stakeholders and managers use models to simulate the effects of new possible management operations decades into the future. Models can quantify tradeoffs between stakeholder’s conflicting objectives. Models can also … Continue reading →

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California water ideas that deserve more attention

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Andrew Rypel

By Peter B. Moyle, Karrigan Börk, Christine A. Parisek, Fabian A. Bombardelli, Jay Lund, and Andrew L. Rypel A panel blog Water systems run on ideas, among many other things. Water ideas are frequently discussed for improving and adapting California … Continue reading →

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Project HOBBES: Assembling water models from the data up

Posted on July 31, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Samuel Sandoval Solis, Josué Medellín-Azuara and Jay Lund Computer modelers tasked with untangling California’s knotty water problems often find themselves entangled by incompatible or poorly organized datasets. They’re stuck for months trying to transform these datasets into model inputs … Continue reading →

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The dog that didn’t bark: Unexpectedly small effects of export changes on Delta farms

Posted on November 14, 2012 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Inspector Gregory: Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time. Holmes: That was the … Continue reading →

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Insights for California water policy from computer modeling

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” G.E.P. Box By Jay R. Lund California has a very complex water system which is important to many often competing interests and purposes. Because of this, California’s water system will always be … Continue reading →

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