Public Reports
Reports listed here are authored by one or more CW3E members or sponsors.
Albano, C.M., McCarthy, M.I., McAfee, S.A., Wein, A.M., and Dettinger, M.D. (2024). Incorporating Climate Data into Emergency Planning and Exercises – A Primer for Emergency Management Practitioners and Data Developers. Prepared by Desert Research Institute and U.S. Geological Survey for the California Department of Water Resources. Publication No. 41303. online PDF available here (via DRI) or available here (via CW3E).
Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Steering Committee, Lake Mendocino, 2017: Preliminary Viability Assessment of Lake Mendocino. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66m803p2.
Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Steering Committee, Prado Dam, 2019: Final Work Plan for Viability Assessment of Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) at Prado Dam. click here for pdf.
Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Steering Committee, Yuba-Feather, 2021: Work Plan for Yuba-Feather Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO). click here for pdf.
Jasperse, J., Ralph, F. M., Anderson, M., Brekke, L., Dillabough, M., Dettinger, M., Hartman, R., Jones, C., Rutten, P., Talbot, C., Webb, R., Ford, D., O’Donnell, A., and DuBay, A. (2015). A comprehensive plan to evaluate the viability of forecast informed reservoir operations for Lake Mendocino. Sonoma County Water Agency report, 1-374. click here for pdf.
Jasperse, J., Ralph, F. M., Anderson, M., Brekke, L., Malasavage, N., Dettinger, M. D., Forbis, J., Fuller,J., Talbot, C., Webb, R., & Haynes, A. (2020). Lake Mendocino Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Final Viability Assessment. UC San Diego. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3b63q04n..
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Review of the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26757
Ralph, F. M., Prather, K. A., Cayan, D., Spackman, R., DeMott, P., Dettinger, M., Fairall, C., Leung, R., Rosenfeld, D., Rutledge, R., Waliser, D., and White, A. B. (2014). CalWater 2: Precipitation, Aerosols, and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers Experiment. CalWater2 White Paper. click here for pdf file
Ralph, F. M., Woodside, G., Anderson, M., Cleary-Rose, K., Haynes, A., Jasperse, J., Sweeten,J., Talbot, C.,Tyler, J., and Vermeeren, R. (2021). Prado Dam Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Preliminary Viability Assessment. UC San Diego. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13091539
Ralph, F. M., James, J., Leahigh, J., Anderson, M, Talbot, C., Haynes, A., Forbis, J., White, M., and Lindley, S. (2022). Yuba-Feather Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Preliminary Viability Assessment. click here for pdf.