INFORMATION RESOURCES & REFERENCE

Climate Change and Drought Planning

• Appendix B: "City of Tucson Water Department Drought Preparedness and
  Response Plan, Answers to Commonly Asked Questions"
  Printable PDF: Appendix B COT Water Department Drought Preparedness and Response Plan
• Phase I PowerPoint Presentation: Sensitivity of Water Supply to Climate Variability
  - Julio Betancourt, U.S. Geological Survey
• Phase I PowerPoint Presentation: Water Supply Reliability, Climate Variability and Climate Change - Katharine Jacobs, Executive Director Arizona Water Institute
• International Panel on Climate Change

Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policy Makers
Climate Change: Climate change hotspots in the United States

• Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 35
  http://www.purdue.edu/eas/earthsystem/Rauscher_GRL_08.pdf
• The Physics Today Hydrology Trends in the West
  Physics Today, April 2008, “Trends in the hydrology of western US bear the imprint of manmade climate change”
• Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34
  McCabe and Wolock, “Effects of Warming on Colorado River Basin”
• Udall Article
  Brad Udall, “Arizona at a crossroads over water and growth”
• New York Review of Books, June 12, 2008
  Dyson, Freeman, “The Question of Global Warming”
• New York Times Magazine, October 21, 2007
  Gertner, Jon, “The Future is Drying Up”
• Drought Management Plan Technical Paper
• City/County Consolidated Drought Management Plan Technical Paper
• Drought Primer
• Drought Appendix BW
• Drought Appendix Color
• PCRWRD Statement Regarding Requested Change to Phase I Report