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OHIO RIVER BASIN - FORMULATING CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION/ADAPTATION STRATEGIES THROUGH REGIONAL COLLABORATION WITH THE ORB ALLIANCE
Citation:
Kirshen, P., Elly Best, H. Stone, J. Kovatch, L. Yeghiazarian, J. Noel, J. Stark, E. Emery, J. Trimboli, D. Raff, J. Arnold, AND R. Drum. OHIO RIVER BASIN - FORMULATING CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION/ADAPTATION STRATEGIES THROUGH REGIONAL COLLABORATION WITH THE ORB ALLIANCE. US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
The report presents a menu of potential mitigation and adaptation strategies that could be instituted by Federal, state, regional, municipal, and county jurisdictions as well as individual and corporate land owners to attenuate the anticipated impacts of a changing climate.
Description:
The Huntington District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in collaboration with the Ohio River Basin Alliance, the Institute for Water Resources, the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, and numerous other Federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, and academic institutions, has prepared the Ohio River Basin Climate Change Pilot Report. Sponsored and supported by the Institute for Water Resources through its Responses to Climate Change program, this report encapsulates the research of numerous professionals in climatology, meteorology, biology, ecology, geology, hydrology, geographic information technology, engineering, water resources planning, economics, and landscape architecture. The report provides downscaled climate modeling information for the entire basin with forecasts of future precipitation and temperature changes as well as forecasts of future streamflow at numerous gaging points throughout the basin. These forecasts are presented at the Hydrologic Unit Code-4 sub-basin level through three 30-year time periods between 2011 and 2099. The report includes the results of preliminary investigations into the various impacts that forecasted climate changes may have on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and operating water resources infrastructure. In addition, the report presents a menu of potential mitigation and adaptation strategies that could be instituted by Federal, state, regional, municipal, and county jurisdictions as well as individual and corporate land owners to attenuate the anticipated impacts of a changing climate. Among these strategies is a proposal that the current policies guiding the operation of basin water resources infrastructure be reviewed in light of the challenges that a new hydrologic regimen may present. The report concludes with a series of lessons learned from the research and study processes, which hopefully will assist others during future investigations of this timely and pressing issue.
URLs/Downloads:
http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/Portals/38/docs/orba/USACE%20Ohio%20River%20Basin%20CC%20Report_MAY%202017.pdf