Existing studies on the impacts of climate change on groundwater recharge are either global
or basin/location-specific. The global studies lack the specificity to inform decision making …

We reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local
governments and the private sector in the United States (US) to understand what types of …

Statistical downscaling and bias correction are becoming standard tools in climate impact
studies. This book provides a comprehensive reference to widely-used approaches, and …

Extreme heat events are likely to become more frequent in the coming decades owing to
climate change,. Exposure to extreme heat depends not only on changing climate, but also …

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts)—communities of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria, and
heterotrophs living at the soil surface—are fundamental components of drylands worldwide …

Biases in climate model simulations introduce biases in subsequent impact simulations.
Therefore, bias correction methods are operationally used to post-process regional climate …

The prevailing paradigm in the western US is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in
historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from …

Scenarios are a tool to develop plausible, coherent visions about the future and to foster
anticipatory knowledge. We present the Sustainable Future Scenarios (SFS) framework and …

Society and the environment in the arid southwestern United States depend on reliable
water availability, yet current water use outpaces supply. Water demand is projected to grow …

Under the semiarid climate of the Southwest United States, accurate estimation of crop water
use is important for water management and planning under conservation agriculture. The …