Water resource activities in RAP are focused in the following areas: surface hydrology for urban flash flood autonowcasting; hydrologic and water resource assessment of rainfall enhancement benefits in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman; land-atmosphere interactions associated with the Cooperative Atmospheric Surface Exchange Study (CASES) and the International H2O (IHOP) experiment; municipal water and climate change studies; the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME); and distributed land surface modeling of large watersheds. Collaborators include the USGS, Denver Urban Drainage and Flood Control District (UDFCD), Univ. of Colorado, Univ. of Arizona, MMM and ESIG.

Research Lead: David Yates