Abstract
Developing a management strategy for riverine resources now also requires consideration of both economic constraints to baseline data for decisions and multi-decadal shifts in precipitation and weather patterns. For example, with reduced expenditures on historical record keeping, it becomes more difficult to accurately assess changes in long-term weather patterns and their resulting influence on habitat availability; thus, resulting in management strategy that may shift through time in order to best replicate the natural flow condition. This chapter discusses a successful management strategy to address some of these concerns, the potential impact of decadal shifts in weather conditions, and alternatives for estimating long-term flow patterns when gauging records are interrupted, terminated or they have never existed. Development and use of spatially explicit models are needed in order to provide protection from over-allocation in undeveloped and/or ungauged systems.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | River Science |
Subtitle of host publication | Research and Management for the 21st Century |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 295-312 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118643525 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781119994343 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 19 2016 |
Keywords
- Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation
- Building-block approach
- Long-term flow patterns
- River hydrographs
- River resource management
- Weather conditions
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences