High Resolution Climate-Hydrology Scenarios for San Francisco’s Bay Area

The goal of this study is to deliver climate and hydrology projections for applied use with the geographic extent of the ten Bay Area counties and to provide managers an interpretive analysis of the range of projected changes in the context of historic climate patterns. To fulfill this goal this project generated a fine-scaled set of climate and hydrology projections for the 10 San Francisco Bay Area counties through the next century that are consistent with the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Global Circulation Models (GCMs) and that are firmly grounded in higher resolution historical empirical data capturing the region’s weather patterns and watershed dynamics.