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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Peer-Reviewed Publications (reverse chronological order):

  • Maurer, E.P., J.C. Adam, and A.W. Wood, 2008, Climate Model based consensus on the hydrologic impacts of climate change to the Rio Lempa basin of Central America, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 5, 3099-3128 (connect to online version).
  • Brekke, L.D., J.D. Anderson, E.P. Maurer, M.D. Dettinger, E.S. Townsley, A. Harrison, and T. Pruitt, 2008, Assessing reservoir operations risk under climate change, Water Resources Research (in review) (PDF version).
  • Lawler, J.J., S.L. Shafer, D. White, P. Kareiva, E.P. Maurer, A.R. Blaustein, and P.J. Bartlein, 2008, Projected climate-induced faunal change in the western hemisphere, Journal of the Ecological Society of America (in press)
  • Wood, A.W., and E.P. Maurer, 2008, Using synoptic-scale land surface moisture indices for hydrologic prediction, Journal of Hydrometeorology (in review) (PDF version)
  • Lebassi, B., J. Gonzalez, D. Fabris, E. Maurer, N. Miller, C. Milesi, P. Switzer, and R. Bornstein, 2008, Observed 1970-2005 cooling of summer daytime temperatures in coastal California, J. Climate (accepted) (PDF version).
  • Maurer, E.P. and H.G. Hidalgo, 2008, Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Vol. 12, 551-563. (HESS On-line Paper)
  • Brekke, L.D., M.D. Dettinger, E.P. Maurer, and M. Anderson, 2008, Significance of Model Credibility in estimating Climate Projection Distributions for Regional Hydroclimatological Risk Assessments, Climatic Change Vol. 89 No. 3-4, 371-394, doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9388-3. reprint
  • Cayan, D.R., E.P. Maurer, M.D. Dettinger, M. Tyree and K. Hayhoe, 2008, Climate change scenarios for the California region, Climatic Change, Vol. 87, Suppl. 1, 21-42 doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9377-6 reprint
  • Hayhoe, K., C. Wake, B. Anderson, X.-Z. Liang, E. Maurer, J. Zhu, J. Bradbury, A. DeGaetano, A.M. Stoner and D. Wuebbles, 2008, Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Vol. 13 (5-6), 425-436, doi: 10.1007/s11027-007-9133-2 reprint.
  • Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, C. Bonfils, P.B. Duffy, and D. Cayan, 2007, Detection, attribution, and sensitivity of trends toward earlier streamflow in the Sierra Nevada, J. Geophysical Research 112, D11118, doi:10.1029/2006JD008088. reprint
  • Vicuna, S., E.P. Maurer, B. Joyce, J.A. Dracup, D. Purkey, 2007, The sensitivity of California water resources to climate change scenarios, Journal of the American Water Resources Association Vol. 43 No. 2, 482-498, doi: 10.1111 / j.1752-1688.2007.00038 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., 2007, Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Sierra Nevada, California under two emissions scenarios, Climatic Change, Vol. 82, No. 3-4, 309-325, doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9180-9 reprint
  • Aschheim, M., E. Maurer, and J.P. Browning, 2007, Dependency of COD on ground motion intensity and stiffness distribution, Structural Engineering & Mechanics, Vol. 27, No. 4, 425-438 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., S. Gibbard, and P.B. Duffy, 2006, Amplification of streamflow impacts of El Niņo by increased atmospheric greenhouse gases, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, No. 2, L02707 10.1029/2005GL025100 reprint
  • Doten, C.O., L.C. Bowling, J.S. Lanini, E.P. Maurer and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006, A spatially distributed model for the dynamic prediction of sediment erosion and transport in mountainous forested watersheds, Water Resour. Res Vol. 42, No. 4, W04417 doi:10.1029/2004WR003829. reprint
  • Maurer, E.P. and C. Mass, 2006, Using radar data to partition precipitation into rain and snow in a hydrologic model, J. Hydrologic Engineering 11(3), 214-221. reprint
  • Maurer, E.P. and P.B. Duffy, 2005, Uncertainty in Projections of Streamflow Changes due to Climate Change in California, Geophys. Res. Let. 32(3), L03704 doi:10.1029/2004GL021462 reprint
  • Ziegler, A.D., E.P. Maurer, J. Sheffield, B. Nijssen, E.F. Wood, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005, Detection time for plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow in three Mississippi River sub-basins, Climatic Change 72, 17–36 doi: 10.1007/s10584-005-5379-4 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., D.P. Lettenmaier, and N. J. Mantua, 2004, Variability and predictability of North American runoff, Water Resour. Res. 40(9), W09306 doi:10.1029/2003WR002789 reprint
  • Hayhoe, K., D. Cayan, C. Field, P. Frumhoff, E. Maurer, N. Miller, S. Moser, S. Schneider, K. Cahill, E. Cleland, L. Dale, R. Drapek, R. M. Hanemann, L. Kalkstein, J. Lenihan, C. Lunch, R. Neilson, S. Sheridan, and J. Verville, 2004, Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 101 (34), 12422–12427. (On-Line Edition )
  • Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004, Potential effects of long-lead hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoirs, J. Climate 17(1) 174-186 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2003, Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D16) 8607 doi:10.1029/2002JD002555 reprint
  • Roads, J., E. Bainto, M. Kanamitsu, T. Reichler, R. Lawford, D. Lettenmaier, E. Maurer, D. Miller, K. Gallo, A. Robock, G. Srinivasan, K. Vinnikov, D. Robinson, V. Lakshmi, H. Berbery, R. Pinker, Q. Li, J. Smith, T. von der Haar, W. Higgins, E. Yarosh, J. Janowiak, K. Mitchell, B. Fekete, C. Vorosmarty, T. Meyers, D. Salstein S. Williams, 2003, GCIP Water and Energy Budget Synthesis, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D16) 8609 doi: 10.1029/2002JD002583 reprint
  • Ziegler, A.D., J. Sheffield, E.P. Maurer, B. Nijssen, E.F. Wood, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2003, Detection of Intensification in Global and Continental-Scale Hydrological Cycles: Temporal Scale of Evaluation, J. Climate 16, 535-547 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., J.D. Rhoads, R.O. Dubayah, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2003, Evaluation of the Snow-Covered Area Data Product from MODIS, Hydrol. Processes 17(1), 59-71 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., A.W. Wood, J.C. Adam, D.P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen, 2002, A Long-Term Hydrologically-Based Data Set of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States, J. Climate 15(22), 3237-3251 reprint
  • Wood, A.W., E.P. Maurer, A. Kumar, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2002, Long range experimental hydrologic forecasting for the eastern U.S., J. Geophys. Res. 107(D20), 4429, doi:10.1029/2001JD000659 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., G.M. O'Donnell, D.P. Lettenmaier, and J.O. Roads, 2001, Evaluation of the Land Surface Water Budget in NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE Reanalyses using an Off-line Hydrologic Model, J. Geophys. Res. 106(D16), 17,841-17,862 reprint
  • Maurer, E.P., G.M. O'Donnell, D.P. Lettenmaier, and J.O. Roads, 2001, Evaluation of NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Water and Energy Budgets using Macroscale Hydrologic Simulations, In: Land Surface Hydrology, Meteorology, and Climate: Observations and Modeling, AGU series in Water Science and Applications, V. Lakshmi, J. Albertson, and J. Schaake eds., pp. 137-158
  • Rao, Chris X. and Edwin P. Maurer, 1996, A Simplified Model for Predicting Transmission Losses in a Stream Channel, Water Resources Bulletin, 32(6), 1139-1146 reprint.

Other Publications:

  • Hopmans, J.W. and E. Maurer, 2007, Impact of climate change on irrigation water availability, crop water requirements and soil salinity in the San Joaquin Valley, pp 67-68 in Annual Project Progress Report 2006–2007, WRC Report #110, University of California, Center for Water Resources, Riverside, CA (online at http://www.waterresources.ucr.edu).
  • Maurer, E.P., L. Brekke, T. Pruitt, and P.B. Duffy, 2007, Fine-resolution climate change projections enhance regional climate change impact studies, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 88(47), 504 (online at http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/2007/47-504.html).
  • [member of climate team for]: Frumhoff, P.C., J.J. McCarthy, J.M. Melillo, S.C. Moser, and D.J. Wuebbles, 2007, Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions. Synthesis report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA). Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). (available online at http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/).
  • Union of Concerned Scientists, 2006, Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (available online at http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/).
  • Cayan, D., E. Maurer, M. Dettinger, M. Tyree, K. Hayhoe, C. Bonfils, P. Duffy, and B. Santer, 2006, Climate scenarios for California, California Climate Change Center publication no. CEC-500-2005-203-SF. (Available online through www.climatechange.ca.gov)
  • Maurer, E.P., 2006, Using Global Climate Model Output for Impact Analysis, In: 2006 Yearbook of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, p. 102-105. DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB061910.(link)
  • Union of Concerned Scientists, 2004, Climate Change in California: Choosing Our Future, Declining Snowpack and Risks to Water Supplies, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (available online at http://www.climatechoices.org/).
  • Ziegler, A.D., J. Sheffield, E.F. Wood, B. Nijssen, E.P. Maurer and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2002, Detection of intensification of the global water cycle: the potential role of FRIEND, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Redbook publication No. 274, 51-57. (Preprint PDF)
  • Maurer, E.P., B. Nijssen, D.P. Lettenmaier, 2000, Use of Reanalysis Land Surface Water Budget Variables in Hydrologic Studies, GEWEX News, 10(4) pp. 6-8. November 2000; (Connect to on-line version)
  • Maurer, Edwin P., and Chris X. Rao, 1994, A Model to Calculate Agricultural Return Flows, In: Proceedings AWRA Symposium on Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems, pp. 1117-1125.
  • Gleick, Peter, H. and Edwin P. Maurer, 1990, Assessing the Costs of Adapting to Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study of San Francisco Bay, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Berkeley, CA. (published on-line 3/2004)

Selected Presentations:

  • Maurer, E.P., H.G. Hidalgo, D.R. Cayan, M.D. Dettinger and T. Das, Improving statistically downscaled daily data for hydrology: diagnosis and opportunities, (poster resented at Fifth Annual California Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA, 9/9/2008) (poster)
  • Maurer, E.P., Downscaling global climate change projections for assessment of water resources impacts (INVITED at the Texas Water Development Board's Far West Texas Climate Change Conference, 6/17/2008, El Paso, Texas).
  • Maurer, E.P., Climate change and California water resources: where do we go from here? (INVITED at Environmental Engineering and Science seminar, Stanford Univ., CA, 4/18/2008). (slides)
  • Maurer, E.P. and H. Hidalgo, Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods (at 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/14/2007). (slides)
  • Brekke, L.D., T. Pruitt, E.P. Maurer, and P.B. Duffy, An archive of downscaled WCRP CMIP3 climate projections for planning applications in the contiguous United States (at 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/2007).
  • Maurer, E.P., Detection of the Climate Change Signal in the Hydrological Record (INVITED at Fourth Annual California Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA, 9/10/2007). (slides)
  • Maurer, E.P. and A.W. Wood, Central America Climate Change: Implications for the Rio Lempa (presented at Spring AGU Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico, 5/22/2007). (slides; movie)
  • Maurer, E.P., Global warming impacts on snow (INVITED at Cross-country Ski Areas Association Meeting, Bear Valley, CA, 4/12/2007).
  • Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, C. Bonfils, P.B. Duffy, and D. Cayan, Earlier streamflow in the Sierra Nevada: influence of elevation on detectability of past and projected trends (presented at 2006 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/2006).
  • Brekke, L.D. and Maurer, E.P., The Significance of Hydrologic Model Selection in studying Climate Change Impacts on Low Flows (presented at 2006 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/2006).
  • Maurer, E.P., Climate Change Impacts on California mountain hydrology (INVITED at University of Washington Hydrology Group Seminar, Seattle, WA, 10/12/2006).
  • Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, C. Bonfils and P.D. Duffy, 2006, Detectability of Trends Towards Earlier Streamflow in the Sierra Nevada (presented at 2006 California Energy Commission Climate Change Research Conference, Sacramento, CA, 9/13-15/2006). (pdf of poster)
  • Maurer, E.P. and A.W. Wood, Evaluation of hydrologic indices for forecasting Western U.S. seasonal water supply (presented at 2006 Pacific Climate Workshop (PACLIM), Pacific Grove, CA, 3/27-28/2006). (pdf of poster)
  • Maurer, E.P., Anticipating Future Climate Change Impacts on California mountain hydrology (presented at 2006 California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum annual meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, 3/1/2006). (link to slides)
  • Maurer, E.P., Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change over California's Sierra Nevada Mountains (presented at 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/8/2005).
  • Maurer, E.P., Global warming impacts on California water: Can we shape the future? (INVITED at U.C. Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series, Davis, CA, 11/21/2005).
  • Maurer, E.P., Anticipating Future Climate Change in the Western U.S. (INVITED at U.S. Bureau of Reclamation River Systems Management Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, 11/9/2005).
  • Maurer, E.P., Future Greenhouse Gas Emission and Water Resources Impacts in California (presented at American Water Resources Association 2005 Annual Water Resources Conference, Seattle, WA, 11/8/2005).
  • Maurer, E.P., Downscaling GCM Output for Regional (CA) Impact Analysis (INVITED at The Nature Conservancy Climate Change and Conservation Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, 10/24/2005).
  • Maurer, E.P., Evaluating uncertainty in regional hydrologic impacts of climate change using different global models: A California case study (presented at ASCE World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Anchorage, Alaska, 5/17/2005) (slides of presentation).
  • Maurer, E.P. and P.B. Duffy, Uncertainty in Projections of Impacts of Climate Change on Sierra Nevada mountain hydrology in California (presented at 2004 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/17/2004) (powerpoint file of poster).
  • S. Gibbard, E.P.Maurer and P.B. Duffy, Regional Climate and Hydrological Responses to El Niño in an Increased CO2 Climate (presented at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/17/2004)
  • Maurer, E.P.Partitioning precipitation into rain and snow for event-based hydrologic modeling in the Pacific Northwest U.S., EOS, Transactions, 85(17), Spring Meet. Suppl., p. 253, Abstract H51G-04, (INVITED: 2004 Joint Assembly of AGU, Montreal, Canada, 5/21/2004) (powerpoint file of presentation)
  • Maurer, E.P., J. Cetrone, S. Medina, and C. Mass, Partitioning of precipitation into rain and snow in distributed hydrologic simulations in the Western Cascades, Oregon, USA (presented at AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA 1/14/2004) (powerpoint file of poster)
  • Maurer, E.P., Lettenmaier, D.P., Mantua, N.J., Variability of United States Runoff and its Climate Teleconnections, EOS, Transactions, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H22B-0917 (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/9/2003) (powerpoint file of poster).
  • Doten, C.O., Bowling, L.C., Maurer, E.P., Voisin, N., Lettenmaier, D.P., Development of a Sediment Transport Component for DHSVM, EOS, Transactions, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H52A-1158, 2003 (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/12/2003).
  • Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, The potential value of hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoir systems, GEWEX Americas Prediction Project PI's meeting, Seattle, WA, July 21, 2003 (powerpoint file of poster).
  • Maurer, E., (invited) Publication of a large-scale hydrologic data set using the SDSC SRB, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) All-Hands Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 19, 2003 (powerpoint file of poster).
  • Maurer, E., Forecasting streamflow with the UW hydrometeorological forecast system, Pacific Northwest Weather Workshop, Seattle, WA, March 8, 2003 (powerpoint file of presentation).
  • Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, Characterizing potential predictability and its sources in the Mississippi River basin, U.S.A., European Geophysical Society XXVII General Assembly, Nice France, April 22, 2002. (link to powerpoint file)
  • Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin, AMS/GAPP Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, May 14, 2002. (link to powerpoint file)
  • Maurer, E.P., A.W. Wood, J.C. Adam, B. Nijssen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2001, Derived Continental U.S. Land Surface Hydrologic Fluxes and State Variables, 1950-2000, EOS, Transactions, 82(47) p. F409. (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/11/2001). (link to powerpoint file)
  • Maurer, E.P., Development of a Long-Term Land Surface Data Set For Investigating Hydrologic Predictability, University of Washington/University of British Columbia Joint Hydrology Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., October 12, 2001. (link to powerpoint file)
  • Lettenmaier, D.P., E.P. Maurer and J.O. Roads, GEWEX water and energy budget synthesis study (WEBS) - Early results from GCIP, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, July 10-13, 2001. (link to powerpoint file)
  • Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2001, Initializing long-lead ensemble forecasts with remotely sensed snow covered area observations, EOS, Transactions, 82(20) p. S188. (presented at AGU Spring Meeting, 5/31/2001). (link to powerpoint file)
  • Sheffield, J., E. Maurer, A. Ziegler, E.F. Wood, A. Broccoli, and D.P. Lettenmaier, How well can acceleration of the global water cycle be detected?, EOS, Transactions, 82(20) p. S155, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, May 29, 2001. (link to powerpoint file)
  • Maurer, E.P., P. Storck, N. Christensen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2000, Evaluation of the Snow-Covered Area Data Product from MODIS in the context of Hydrologic Modeling. EOS, Transactions, 81(48) p. F548. (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/19/2000; see web site of presentation - requires Internet Explorer;
  • Maurer, E.P., G.M. O'Donnell, D.P. Lettenmaier, J.O. Roads, and E.F. Wood, 2000, LDAS Long-Term Retrospective Analyses. EOS, Transactions, 81(19) pp. S201-202. (presented at AGU Spring Meeting, 5/31/2000; see web site of presentation)
  • Lettenmaier, D.P., E.F. Wood, G.M. O'Donnell and E.P. Maurer, Land data assimilation system retrospective simulations for land surface water and energy balance parameterization, GCIP Principal Investigators Meeting, Potomac, MD, March 27-28, 2000.
  • O'Donnell, G.M., D.P. Lettenmaier, E.F. Wood, E. Maurer and J.O. Roads, LDAS Retrospective Analyses: A hydrological perspective, AMS 80th Annual Meeting, 15th Conference on Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Jan. 9-14, 2000.
  • Maurer, E.P., D.P. Lettenmaier, and J.O. Roads, 1999, Water Balance of the Mississippi River basin from a Macroscale Hydrologic Model and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. EOS, Transactions, 80(46) pp. F409-410. (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/16/99; see web site of poster)