Acronyms and Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction

Part One: Prospects for Understanding and Predicting Variability of
    Climate
  1 Predicting Climate Variations in the American West: What
    Are Our Prospects?
    RANDALL M. DOLE
  2 Climate Variability in the West: Complex Spatial Structure
    Associated with Topography, and Observational Issues
    KELLY T. REDMOND
  3 Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic
    Variability
    CONNIE A. WOODHOUSE
  4 Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination of Climate Data
    RENE REITSMA AND PHIL PASTERIS

Part Two: Linkages Between Prediction of Climate and Hydrology
  5 Use of Weather and Climate Information in Forecasting Water
    Supply in the Western United States
    MARTYN P. CLARK, LAUREN E. HAY, GREGORY J. MCCABE,
    GEORGE H. LEAVESLEY, MARK C. SERREZE, AND ROBERT L. WILBY
  6 Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on the Water
    Resources of the Western United States
    KENNETH M. STRZEPEK AND DAVID N. YATES





  7 Improving Water-Resource System Performance Through Long-
    Range Climate Forecasts: The Pacific Northwest Experience
    DENNIS P. LETTENMAIER AND ALAN F. HAMLET
  8 Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and
    Hydrology Reached Its Full Potential?
    JOHN LABADIE AND LUIS GARCIA

Part Three: Responses of Water Managers to Climate Variability and
    Climate Change
  9 What Can Water Managers Do About Climate Variability and
    Change?
    EUGENE STAKHIV
 10 Management of Colorado River Resources
    TERRANCE J. FULP
 11 Water Development and Management Along the South Platte
    River of Colorado
    TOM CECH
 12 Can Climate Predictions Be of Practical Use in Western Water
    Management?
    C. BOOTH WALLENTINE AND DAVE MATTHEWS

Part Four: Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Water
 13 A Changing Geography: Growth, Land Use, and Water in the
    Interior West
    WILLIAM R. TRAVIS
 14 Constraints of Law and Policy on the Management of Western
    Water
    DAVID H. GETCHES
 15 Economic and Institutional Strategies for Adapting to Water
    Resource Effects of Climate Change
    JOHN LOOMIS, JESSICA KOTEEN, AND BRIAN HURD
 16 Climate Variability: Social, Policy, and Institutional Issues
    KATHLEEN MILLER AND STEVEN GLOSS

Part Five: Analyzing the Analysts
 17 Western Water Resources and "Climate of Opinion" Variables
    PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK

About the Contributors
Index