West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments Handout

West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments Handout
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West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments: Irrigation Demand and Reservoir Evaporation Projections CART Case Study Handout

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) conducted a survey of eight major basins and twelve reservoirs in the western U.S. as part of a West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments project. This study used computer modeling to better understand historical and future crop irrigation demands and reservoir evaporation rates to inform the management of water resources during climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

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Read the full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/west-wide-climate-risk-assessments-irrigation-demand-and-reservoir-evaporation

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