Description:

There is an increasing need for reliable, actionable precipitation prediction useful for planners and water managers in the US Western Region.  The prediction problem stretches the limits of multiple communities: atmosphere, land, and ocean modeling, particularly as the global system’s teleconnections interact over the extreme, high-resolution topography of the US mountain west.

This session seeks presentations demonstrating modeling improvements to prediction skill related to Western Region water resources via precipitation, snowpack, topographic steering of teleconnections influence on precipitation patterns, and other factors impacting water management needs in this region.  In addition, studies on the sources of predictability over this region are desired.