Columbia River Basin Impacts Assessment: Major Tasks and Timeline
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Some of the specific tasks to be completed in this Assessment include generation of future climate change flows throughout the Columbia River Basin, apply future climate change flows in multiple water resource models, and providing resources for our internal and external partners to download data developed as part of this Assessment.
| Task Number | Name | Schedule | Description |
| Task 2 | Climate Change Processing | April-December 2014 | Obtain meteorological climate change data for the Pacific Northwest, update and calibrate hydrologic model, generate future flow at selected locations in the Columbia River Basin. |
| Task 3 | Identification of Groundwater Dominated Basins | September 2014- May 2015 | Identify basins in the Columbia River Basin that are groundwater dominated and therefore may require more in-depth analyses to quantify surface and groundwater imbalances due to climate change. |
| Task 4 | Water Resource Modeling | April 2014 – April 2015 | General daily unregulated flow in the Upper Snake River, Deschutes, and Yakima River systems, update the MODSIM-DSS upper Snake River water resource model, conduct simulations of historical and future climate change flow. |
| Task 5 | Conduct Climate Change analysis in River Analysis System and Design groups | September 2014 – May 2015 | Use climate change flow generated in Task 2 in a one-dimensional and a two-dimensional model used by the other groups in Reclamation to evaluated geomorphology and design and construction projects to understand how climate change may affect decision-making and results when compared to those evaluated under stationarity (assuming the future climate is the same as the past climate). |
| Task 7 | GIS Coordination and Data Management | April 2014 – December 2015 | Initiate the development of a Reclamation-wide interactive website that allows users to access meteorological, hydrologic, and modeling result data at locations of interest. |
| Task 8 | Reporting | 2014 – 2015 | Technical memorandums will be written following the completion of each major task to document methods and results. An Interim Report summarizing the Assessment effort will be generated in June 2015. A Final Report is planned for December 2015. |
Contact
Carri Hessman
Program Manager
(208) 378-5106
chessman@usbr.gov
Bureau of Reclamation
Pacific Northwest Regional Office
1150 North Curtis Road, Suite 100
Boise, Idaho 83706-1234
