A new article by Ayman Alzraiee and Richard Niswonger has been published in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
The article, “Assessing future hydrologic extremes using an integrated hydrology and river operations model in the Russian River watershed,” presents an integrated surface water, groundwater, and operations modeling approach to evaluate how climate change and water use may affect streamflow conditions.
The study finds that groundwater pumping can significantly deplete streamflow, streamflow droughts become longer and more severe under climate change scenarios, peak flows increase substantially in wetter futures, and reservoirs play a key role in buffering these impacts across the watershed.
Read the full open-access article here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581825008456



