Workshop: Is Global Climate Change Research Relevant to Day-to-Day Water Resources Management?

水的可获得性和使用量的巨大时空差异、远距离交易水的经济效率低下，以及美国各地机构和生态系统的差异，传统上将水管理决策置于地方层面。为了减少干旱和洪水风险，当地管理人员依赖基础设施(如水坝和堤坝)。随着人类对世界气候变化认识的加深，有可能以足够的可靠性预测气候的极端情况，从而降低当地水资源管理决策的风险。全球气候变化研究的模型和信息产品越来越多地可用，并以与水资源研究管理决策相关的形式出现。但是，地方决策者有多大的意愿和能力来融入这一新知识呢？是否充分理解水资源管理决策日历，知道如何以正确的形式和在正确的时间注入气候变化信息，并具有足够的可靠性，以供当地水资源管理者使用？UCOWR提议在其2002年在密歇根州特拉弗斯城举行的年会上组织一次研讨会，以审查气候变化研究的现状及其与水资源管理决策的关系，从国家到区域，再到州和地方各级。讲习班的结果将作为2003年的一期《水资源最新情况》出版。研讨会参与者包括：罗伯特·沃德，科罗拉多州立大学理查德·劳福德，NOAATom N.Chase全球项目办公室项目经理，合作环境科学研究所R.A.尤金·斯塔基夫，美国陆军工程兵团规划和政策研究部，水资源研究所。

0226515LantThe huge temporal and spatial differences in water availability and use, the economic inefficiency of trading water long distances, and differences in institutions and ecosystems across the United States, have traditionally placed water management decisions at a local level. To reduce drought and flood risks, local managers have relied upon infrastructure (e.g. dams and levees). As human understanding of the world's climate variation is enhanced, there is the possibility that the extremes of climate can predicted with sufficient reliability to make local water resource management decision less risky.Models and information products of global climate change research are becoming increasingly available and are being put in forms related to water research management decisions. But how willing and able are local decision-makers to incorporate this new knowledge? Are water management decision calendars understood well enough to know how to infuse climate change information, in the right form and at the right time, and with sufficient reliability to be of use to local water managers? UCOWR is proposing to organize a workshop at its 2002 annual meeting in Traverse City, Michigan to examine the current state of climate change research and its interface with water resources management decision-making, from national, to regional, to state, local levels. The results of the workshop will be published as a Water Resources Update issue in 2003. Workshop participants include:Robert Ward, Colorado State UniversityRichard Lawford, Program Manager, Office of Global Programs, NOAATom N. Chase, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences R. A Eugene Stakhiv, Chief, Planning and Policy Studies Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources.Peter Roger Division of A lied Sciences Harvard University