HR: 1340h
AN: H23F-1686    [Abstracts]
TI: Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Lake Victoria Basin
AU: * Tidwell, A C
EM: fnact@uaf.edu
AF: Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 755910, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5910, United States
AU: Georgakakos, A P
EM: aris.georgakakos@ce.gatech.edu
AF: Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, 790 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0355, United States
AU: Yao, H
EM: huaming.yao@ce.gatech.edu
AF: Georgia Water Resources Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, 790 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0355, United States
AB: The success of water resources planning and management decisions is predicated on decision maker access to reliable and conclusive information, including climate forecasts. This is becoming increasingly critical as climate changes are predicted to take place over the same time horizons used in water and energy resources planning. The results of climate scenario analysis for Lake Victoria in East Africa are presented and used in a detailed climate change impact assessment for water resources. This region is shown to be particularly vulnerable to climate changes through projected impacts on net basin supplies, lake levels, lake releases, and energy generation.
DE: 1807 Climate impacts
DE: 1880 Water management (6334)
DE: 1884 Water supply
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting