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Dale, Larry L., Karali, Nihan, Millstein, Dev, Carnall, Mike, Vicuña, Sebastian, Borchers, Nicolas, Bustos, Eduardo, O’Hagan, Joe, Purkey, David, Heaps, Charles, Sieber, Jack, Collins, William D. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-9848 and Sohn, Michael D.
(2015)
An integrated assessment of water-energy and climate change in sacramento, california:how strong is the nexus?
Climatic Change, 132 (2).
pp. 223-235.
ISSN 0165-0009
Abstract
This paper is among the first to report on the full integration of basin-scale models that include projections of the demand and supply of water and energy for residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural sector users. We link two widely used regional planning models that allow one to study the impact of rising climate variability on water and electricity use in Sacramento, California. Historic data combined with the current energy and water system configuration was used to assess the implications of changes in temperature and precipitation. Climate simulations suggest that electricity imports to the region would increase during hot dry spells, when regional power production is most constrained. In particular, regional imports of electricity would increase over 35 % in hot dry years, assuming a 4 °C increase in average temperature and a 25 % decrease in average precipitation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | global and planetary change,atmospheric science,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2026 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2026 23:03 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103647 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10584-015-1370-x |
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