Incorporating decadal predictions into water management decisions
 
Dr. Erin Towler, Project Scientist, C3WE, MMM, NCAR
 
Decadal climate predictions offer potential to meet decision-support and planning needs that fall between seasonal 
variations and centennial climate trends. As decadal prediction science advances through its current exploratory 
phase, there is considerable opportunity to better understand decision needs and the predictive capacity for the 
needed information. I will present an overview of an ongoing NSF-funded project, Understanding Decision-Climate 
Interactions on Decadal Scales (UDECIDE), that aims to understand the role of decadal climate information for water 
management decisions. Understanding will be developed through case studies and potential applications to the water 
resources sector will be discussed.