Climate-driven disturbances in the San Juan River sub-basin of the Colorado River

Bennett, Katrina E.; Bohn, Theodore J.; Solander, Kurt; McDowell, Nathan G.; Xu, Chonggang; Vivoni, Enrique; Middleton, Richard S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-709-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-709-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Special issue:

Observations and modeling of land surface water and energy...

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-709-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 1

Research article

|

26 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 26 Jan 2018

Climate-driven disturbances in the San Juan River sub-basin of the Colorado River

Katrina E. Bennett, Theodore J. Bohn, Kurt Solander, Nathan G. McDowell, Chonggang Xu, Enrique Vivoni, and Richard S. Middleton

Download

Final revised paper (published on 26 Jan 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 24 Apr 2017)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Review of hess-2017-204', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Sep 2017
- RC2: 'REFERENCES', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Sep 2017
  - AC1: 'Review response R1', Katrina Bennet, 31 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Review response R1', Katrina Bennet, 31 Oct 2017
RC3: 'Interesting study into the intersection of climate and land cover changes', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Oct 2017
- AC2: 'Review response R3', Katrina Bennet, 31 Oct 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (01 Nov 2017) by Reed Maxwell

AR by Katrina Bennett on behalf of the Authors (01 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Nov 2017) by Reed Maxwell

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (21 Nov 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (08 Dec 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (08 Dec 2017) by Reed Maxwell

AR by Katrina Bennett on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We applied the Variable Infiltration Capacity hydrologic model to examine scenarios of change under climate and landscape disturbances in the San Juan River basin, a major sub-watershed of the Colorado River basin. Climate change coupled with landscape disturbance leads to reduced streamflow in the San Juan River basin. Disturbances are expected to be widespread in this region. Therefore, accounting for these changes within the context of climate change is imperative for water resource planning.