HR: 17:30h
AN: H24A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Incorporation of Climatic Variability for Management of Water Resources in South Florida
AU: * Obeysekera, J
EM: jobey@sfwmd.gov
AF: Hydrologic & Environmental System Modeling South Florida Water Management District, 3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33406, United States
AU: Trimble, P
EM: ptrimble@sfwmd.gov
AF: Hydrologic & Environmental System Modeling South Florida Water Management District, 3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33406, United States
AU: Cadavid, L
EM: cadavid@sfwmd.gov
AF: Hydrologic & Environmental System Modeling South Florida Water Management District, 3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33406, United States
AB: Climate in any region is the result of both short- and long-term phenomena interacting at local, regional and global scales. In South Florida where major changes to the water resources infrastructure are being contemplated for facilitating the restoration of large-scale ecosystems such as the Kissimmee River Basin and the Everglades, consideration of intra-decadal and multi-decadal climate variability is extremely important in both water resources planning and regional operations. Correlations of hydro-climatology of South Florida to such global phenomena as El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO) have been investigated extensively. This paper addresses the considerations of hydroclimatic variability in two areas of water resources management: (a) Operational Planning; and (b) Facility Planning. The South Florida Water Management District, regional agency responsible for management of water resources in South Florida, has effectively employed the seasonal and multi-seasonal outlook for operational planning. Since the agency has embarked on a major infrastructure improvement project to facilitate Everglades Restoration while meeting the meeting the water supplies for agriculture and increasing urban population, the issue of decadal to multi-decadal climate variability in water resources planning has come to the forefront as a major consideration in future investments. This paper provides an application of the research to develop operational rules of Lake Okeechobee as well as the real-time implementation of rules based on climate outlooks. The current research to address the question of decadal to multi-decadal climate variability in facility planning is also discussed.
UR: http://www.sfwmd.org
DE: 1809 Desertification
DE: 1833 Hydroclimatology
DE: 1847 Modeling
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting