Maurer, Edwin P. - School of Engineering

Education

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, 2002
M.S. Civil Engineering (Water Resources), University of California, Berkeley, 1989
B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1985

Courses Taught

CENG 41 - Statics
CENG 139 - Groundwater Hydrology
CENG 140 - Water Resources Engineering
CENG 141 - Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering
CENG 142 - Water Resources Design
CENG 160 - GIS in Water Resources
CENG 161 - Sustainable Water Resources
CENG 162 - Computational Water Resources

Honors and Awards

Santa Clara University Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, 2021. • Santa Clara University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship, 2013.
Robert W. Peters Endowed Professor at Santa Clara University, 2012-present.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Chile, 2011.
Google Science Communication Fellow, 2011.
Santa Clara University, School of Engineering Researcher of the Year, 2009.
Packard Faculty Fellowship, Santa Clara University, 2004-06.
NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, 1999-2001.

Publications

Peer-Review Publications

Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, K. Joseph, and H.G. Hidalgo, 2022, The Mesoamerican mid-summer drought: the impact of its definition on occurrences and recent changes, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 1425–1437
Stewart, I., E. Maurer, K. Stahl, and K. Joseph, 2022, Recent evidence for warmer and drier growing seasons in climate sensitive regions of Central America from multiple global datasets, International Journal of Climatology, 42(3), 1399-1417 https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7310.
Bacon, C., W.A. Sundstrom, I.T. Stewart, E. Maurer, and L.C. Kelley, 2021, Towards Smallholder Food and Water Security: Climate Variability in the Context of Multiple Livelihood Hazards in Nicaragua, World Development 143, 105468,
Walton, D., N. Berg, D. Pierce, E. Maurer, A. Hall, Y.-H. Lin S. Rahimi, and D. Cayan, 2020, Understanding differences in California climate projections produced by dynamical and statistical downscaling, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125(19), e2020JD032812, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032812
Corona, C.R., J.J. Gurdak, J.E. Dickinson, T.P.A. Ferré, E.P. Maurer, 2018, Climate variability and vadose zone controls on damping of transient recharge, J. Hydrology 561:1094-1104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.08.028. reprint
Maurer, E.P., G. Kayser, L. Doyle, and A.W. Wood, 2018, Adjusting Flood Peak Frequency Changes to Account for Climate Change Impacts in the Western United States, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 144(3): 05017025. reprint
Maurer, E.P., N. Roby, I.T. Stewart-Frey, and C.M. Bacon, 2017, Projected 21st-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled climate projections, Regional Environmental Change, 17(8): 2421–2432. doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1177-6 (online version).
Dettinger, M., J. Anderson, M. Anderson, L. Brown, D. Cayan and E. Maurer, 2016, Climate change and the Delta, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 14(3): Article 5, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2016v14iss2art5
Maurer, E.P., D.L. Ficklin, and W.Wang, 2016, Technical Note: The impact of spatial scale in bias correction of climate model output for hydrologic impact studies, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 685-696, doi: 10.5194/hess-20-685-2016. (link to online paper)
Ficklin, D.L. S.L. Letsinger, I.T. Stewart, and E.P. Maurer, 2016, Assessing differences in snowmelt-dependent hydrologic projections using CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate forcing data for the western United States, Hydrology Research 47(2) 483-500; reprint
Pierce, D., D. Cayan; E. Maurer; J. Abatzoglou, K. Hegewisch, 2015, Improved bias correction techniques for hydrological simulations of climate change, J. Hydrometeorology 16, 2421–2442, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0236.1. reprint
Ficklin, D., B. Barnhart, J. Knouft, I. Stewart, E. Maurer, S. Letsinger, G. Whittaker, 2014, Climate change and stream temperature projections in the Columbia River basin: biological implications of spatial variation in hydrologic drivers, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 4897-4912, doi:10.5194/hess-18-4897-2014. (link to online paper)
Maurer, E.P. and D.W. Pierce, 2014, Bias correction can modify climate model-simulated precipitation changes without adverse affect on the ensemble mean, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 915-925, doi:10.5194/hess-18-915-2014. (link to online paper)
Maurer, E.P., L. Brekke, T.Pruitt, B.Thrasher, J.Long, P. Duffy, M. Dettinger, D.Cayan and J. Arnold, 2014, An enhanced archive facilitating climate impacts analysis, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 95(7):1011–1019, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00126.1. reprint
Girvetz, E.H., E.P. Maurer, P. Duffy, A.S. Ruesch, F. Zermoglio, and C. Zganjar, 2013, Daily downscaled metrics of future climate impact: a novel global dataset and online analysis tool, Earth System Science Data (submitted).
Ficklin, D.L., I.T. Stewart, and E.P. Maurer, 2013, Effects of climate change on stream temperature, dissolved oxygen, and sediment concentration in the Sierra Nevada in California, Water Resources Research 49, 2765–2782, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20248. reprint.
Demaria, E.M.C., E.P. Maurer, B. Thrasher, S. Vicuña and, F.J. Meza, 2013, Climate change impacts on an alpine watershed in Chile: do new model projections change the story?, J. Hydrology 502:128-138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.08.027. reprint.
Das, T., E.P. Maurer, D.W. Pierce, M.D. Dettinger, D.R. Cayan, 2013, Increases in Flood Magnitudes in California Under Warming Climates, J. Hydrology 501, 101-110, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.07.042. reprint.
Wilsey, C.B., J.J. Lawler, E.P. Maurer, D. McKenzie, S.L. Shafer, P. Townsend, R. Gwozdz, J.A. Freund, K. Hagmann, K. Hutten, 2013, Tools for assessing climate impacts on ecosystems, J. Fish and Wildlife Management, 4, 220-241, doi:10.3996/062012-jfwm-055. reprint.
Ficklin, D.L., I.T. Stewart, and E.P. Maurer, 2013, Climate change impacts on streamflow and subbasin-scale hydrology in the Upper Colorado River Basin, PLoS ONE 8(8): e71297. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071297.
Pierce, D., D.R. Cayan, T. Das, E.P. Maurer, N.L. Miller, Y. Bao, M. K, K. Yoshimura, M.A. Snyder, L.C. Sloan, G. Franco, M. Tyree, 2013, The key role of heavy precipitation events in climate model disagreements of future annual precipitation changes in California, Journal of Climate 26, 5879–5896. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-12-00766.1, 2013. reprint.
Livneh, B., E.A. Rosenberg, C. Lin, V. Mishra, K. Andreadis, E.P. Maurer, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2013, A long-term hydrologically based data set of land surface fluxes and states for the conterminous U.S.: Update and extensions, Journal of Climate 26, 9384–9392. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00508.1.reprint
Maurer, E.P., T. Das, and D.R. Cayan, 2013, Errors in climate model daily precipitation and temperature output: time invariance and implications for bias correction, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 2147-2159, doi:10.5194/hess-17-2147-2013.reprint.
Demaria, E.M.C., E.P. Maurer, J. Sheffield, E. Bustos, D. Poblete, S. Vicuña, and F. Meza, 2013, Using a gridded global data set to characterize regional hydroclimate in central Chile, Journal of Hydrometeorology 14(1):251-265, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-047.1 reprint.
Pierce, D.W. T. Das, D.R. Cayan, E.P. Maurer, N. Miller, Y. Bao, M. Kanamitsu, K. Yoshimura, M.A. Snyder, L.C. Sloan, G. Franco, M. Tyree, 2013, Probabilistic estimates of future changes in California temperature and precipitation using statistical and dynamical downscaling, Climate Dynamics 40(3-4):839-856, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1337-9. reprint
Costa-Cabral, M., S.B. Roy, E.P. Maurer, W.B. Mills, and L. Chen, 2013, Snowpack and runoff response to climate change in Owens Valley and Mono Lake watersheds, Climatic Change, 116(1): 97-109, DOI 10.1007/s10584-012-0529-y. reprint.
Ficklin, D.L., I.T. Stewart, and E.P. Maurer, 2013, Effects of projected climate change on the hydrology in the Mono Lake Basin, California, Climatic Change, 116(1):111-131, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0566-6 reprint.
Ficklin, D.L., I.T. Stewart, and E.P. Maurer, 2012, Projections of 21st Century Sierra Nevada Local Hydrologic Flow Components Using an Ensemble of General Circulation Models, J. American Water Resources Assoc.,48: 1104–1125. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2012.00675.x. reprint
Thrasher, B., E.P. Maurer, C. McKellar and P.B. Duffy, 2012, Technical Note: Bias correcting climate model simulated daily temperature extremes with quantile mapping, Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 16, 3309–3314, doi:10.5194/hess-16-3309-2012 (connect to online version).
Roy, S.B., L. Chen, E.H. Girvetz, E.P. Maurer, W.B. Mills, and T.M. Grieb, 2012, Projecting water withdrawal and supply for future decades in the U.S. under climate change scenarios, Environ. Sci. Technol. 46(5): 2545–2556, DOI: 10.1021/es2030774.
Ficklin, D.L., Y. Luo, I.T. Stewart, and E.P. Maurer, 2012, Development and application of a hydroclimatological stream temperature model within the Soil and Water Assessment Tool. Water Resources Research 48, W01511, doi:10.1029/2011WR011256. reprint
Maurer, E.P., L.D. Brekke, and T. Pruitt, 2010, Contrasting lumped and distributed hydrology models for estimating climate change impacts on California watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 46(5):1024–1035. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00473.x. reprint
Maurer, E.P., H.G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M.D. Dettinger, and D.R. Cayan, 2010, The utility of daily large-scale climate data in the assessment of climate change impacts on daily streamflow in California, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14, 1125-1138, doi:10.5194/hess-14-1125-2010 (connect to online version)
Vicuna, S., J.A. Dracup, J.R. Lund, L.L. Dale and E.P. Maurer, 2010, Basin-scale water system operations with uncertain future climate conditions: Methodology and case studies, Water Resour. Res., 46, W04505, doi:10.1029/2009WR007838. reprint
Francl, K. E., K. Hayhoe, M. Saunders, and E. P. Maurer, 2010, Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change: Small Mammal Migration Pathways in the Great Lakes States, J. Great Lakes Res., 36(sp2), 86-93, doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2009.1009.1007. reprint
Schoups, G., E.P. Maurer, and J.W. Hopmans, 2010, Climate change impacts on water demand and salinity in California’s irrigated agriculture, Climatic Change (submitted) (PDF version).
Girvetz, E., Zganjar, C, Raber, G., Maurer, E.P., Kareiva, P., Lawler, J.J., 2009, Applied climate-change analysis: The Climate Wizard Tool, PLoS ONE 4(12): e8320. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008320.
Maurer, E.P., J.C. Adam, and A.W. Wood, 2009, Climate model based consensus on the hydrologic impacts of climate change to the Rio Lempa basin of Central America, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 13, 183-194 (connect to online version).
Brekke, L. D., E. P. Maurer, J. D. Anderson, M. D. Dettinger, E. S. Townsley, A. Harrison, and T. Pruitt, 2009, Assessing reservoir operations risk under climate change, Water Resources Research 45, W04411, doi:10.1029/2008WR006941 reprint
Lawler, J.J., S.L. Shafer, D. White, P. Kareiva, E.P. Maurer, A.R. Blaustein, and P.J. Bartlein, 2009, Projected climate-induced faunal change in the western hemisphere, Ecology, 90(3), 588–597 reprint
Wood, A.W., and E.P. Maurer, 2008, Using synoptic-scale land surface moisture indices for hydrologic prediction, Journal of Hydrometeorology (rescinded) (PDF version)
Lebassi, B., J. Gonzalez, D. Fabris, E. Maurer, N. Miller, C. Milesi, P. Switzer, and R. Bornstein, 2009, Observed 1970-2005 cooling of summer daytime temperatures in coastal California, J. Climate Vo. 22, 3558-3573, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2111.1 reprint.
Maurer, E.P. and H.G. Hidalgo, 2008, Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Vol. 12, 551-563. (HESS On-line Paper)
Brekke, L.D., M.D. Dettinger, E.P. Maurer, and M. Anderson, 2008, Significance of Model Credibility in estimating Climate Projection Distributions for Regional Hydroclimatological Risk Assessments, Climatic Change Vol. 89 No. 3-4, 371-394, doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9388-3. reprint
Cayan, D.R., E.P. Maurer, M.D. Dettinger, M. Tyree and K. Hayhoe, 2008, Climate change scenarios for the California region, Climatic Change, Vol. 87, Suppl. 1, 21-42 doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9377-6 reprint
Hayhoe, K., C. Wake, B. Anderson, X.-Z. Liang, E. Maurer, J. Zhu, J. Bradbury, A. DeGaetano, A.M. Stoner and D. Wuebbles, 2008, Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Vol. 13 (5-6), 425-436, doi: 10.1007/s11027-007-9133-2 reprint.
Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, C. Bonfils, P.B. Duffy, and D. Cayan, 2007, Detection, attribution, and sensitivity of trends toward earlier streamflow in the Sierra Nevada, J. Geophysical Research 112, D11118, doi:10.1029/2006JD008088. reprint
Vicuna, S., E.P. Maurer, B. Joyce, J.A. Dracup, D. Purkey, 2007, The sensitivity of California water resources to climate change scenarios, Journal of the American Water Resources Association Vol. 43 No. 2, 482-498, doi: 10.1111 / j.1752-1688.2007.00038 reprint
Maurer, E.P., 2007, Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change in the Sierra Nevada, California under two emissions scenarios, Climatic Change, Vol. 82, No. 3-4, 309-325, doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9180-9 reprint
Aschheim, M., E. Maurer, and J.P. Browning, 2007, Dependency of COD on ground motion intensity and stiffness distribution, Structural Engineering & Mechanics, Vol. 27, No. 4, 425-438 reprint
Maurer, E.P., S. Gibbard, and P.B. Duffy, 2006, Amplification of streamflow impacts of El Niño by increased atmospheric greenhouse gases, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, No. 2, L02707 10.1029/2005GL025100 reprint
Doten, C.O., L.C. Bowling, J.S. Lanini, E.P. Maurer and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006, A spatially distributed model for the dynamic prediction of sediment erosion and transport in mountainous forested watersheds, Water Resour. Res Vol. 42, No. 4, W04417 doi:10.1029/2004WR003829. reprint
Maurer, E.P. and C. Mass, 2006, Using radar data to partition precipitation into rain and snow in a hydrologic model, J. Hydrologic Engineering 11(3), 214-221. reprint
Maurer, E.P. and P.B. Duffy, 2005, Uncertainty in Projections of Streamflow Changes due to Climate Change in California, Geophys. Res. Let. 32(3), L03704 doi:10.1029/2004GL021462 reprint
Ziegler, A.D., E.P. Maurer, J. Sheffield, B. Nijssen, E.F. Wood, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005, Detection time for plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow in three Mississippi River sub-basins, Climatic Change 72, 17–36 doi: 10.1007/s10584-005-5379-4 reprint
Maurer, E.P., D.P. Lettenmaier, and N. J. Mantua, 2004, Variability and predictability of North American runoff, Water Resour. Res. 40(9), W09306 doi:10.1029/2003WR002789 reprint
Hayhoe, K., D. Cayan, C. Field, P. Frumhoff, E. Maurer, N. Miller, S. Moser, S. Schneider, K. Cahill, E. Cleland, L. Dale, R. Drapek, R. M. Hanemann, L. Kalkstein, J. Lenihan, C. Lunch, R. Neilson, S. Sheridan, and J. Verville, 2004, Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 101 (34), 12422–12427. (On-Line Edition )
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004, Potential effects of long-lead hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoirs, J. Climate 17(1) 174-186 reprint
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2003, Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D16) 8607 doi:10.1029/2002JD002555 reprint
Roads, J., E. Bainto, M. Kanamitsu, T. Reichler, R. Lawford, D. Lettenmaier, E. Maurer, D. Miller, K. Gallo, A. Robock, G. Srinivasan, K. Vinnikov, D. Robinson, V. Lakshmi, H. Berbery, R. Pinker, Q. Li, J. Smith, T. von der Haar, W. Higgins, E. Yarosh, J. Janowiak, K. Mitchell, B. Fekete, C. Vorosmarty, T. Meyers, D. Salstein S. Williams, 2003, GCIP Water and Energy Budget Synthesis, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D16) 8609 doi: 10.1029/2002JD002583 reprint
Ziegler, A.D., J. Sheffield, E.P. Maurer, B. Nijssen, E.F. Wood, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2003, Detection of Intensification in Global and Continental-Scale Hydrological Cycles: Temporal Scale of Evaluation, J. Climate 16, 535-547 reprint
Maurer, E.P., J.D. Rhoads, R.O. Dubayah, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2003, Evaluation of the Snow-Covered Area Data Product from MODIS, Hydrol. Processes 17(1), 59-71 reprint
Maurer, E.P., A.W. Wood, J.C. Adam, D.P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen, 2002, A Long-Term Hydrologically-Based Data Set of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States, J. Climate 15(22), 3237-3251 reprint
Wood, A.W., E.P. Maurer, A. Kumar, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2002, Long range experimental hydrologic forecasting for the eastern U.S., J. Geophys. Res. 107(D20), 4429, doi:10.1029/2001JD000659 reprint
Maurer, E.P., G.M. O'Donnell, D.P. Lettenmaier, and J.O. Roads, 2001, Evaluation of the Land Surface Water Budget in NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE Reanalyses using an Off-line Hydrologic Model, J. Geophys. Res. 106(D16), 17,841-17,862 reprint
Maurer, E.P., G.M. O'Donnell, D.P. Lettenmaier, and J.O. Roads, 2001, Evaluation of NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Water and Energy Budgets using Macroscale Hydrologic Simulations, In: Land Surface Hydrology, Meteorology, and Climate: Observations and Modeling, AGU series in Water Science and Applications, V. Lakshmi, J. Albertson, and J. Schaake eds., pp. 137-158
Rao, Chris X. and Edwin P. Maurer, 1996, A Simplified Model for Predicting Transmission Losses in a Stream Channel, Water Resources Bulletin, 32(6), 1139-1146 reprint.

Other Publications

Haleakala, K., E. Maurer, S. Greene, 2017: Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water Supply Reliability for Santa Clara County, California. In Proceedings, ASCE World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2017, p 347-359. https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784480618.034
Pierce, D. W., D. R. Cayan, E. P. Maurer, J. T. Abatzoglou, and K. C. Hegewisch, 2015: Improved bias correction techniques for hydrological simulations of climate change. California Energy Commission PIER program report, 49 pp.
Girvetz, E.H., E.P. Maurer, P. Duffy, A. Ruesch, B. Thrasher, C. Zganjar, 2013, Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making: The important details of Spatial and Temporal Downscaling, The World Bank, March 27, 2013. (online at http://climatewizardcustom.org/WorldBank/Global_Daily_Downscaled_Climate_Data_Guidance_Note.pdf).
Cobb, A., M. Warms, E.P. Maurer, and S. Chiesa, 2012, Low-tech coconut shell activated charcoal production, International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering 7(1):93-104. (online at http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/ijsle/article/view/4244).
P. Mote, L. Brekke, P. B. Duffy, and E. Maurer, 2011, Guidelines for constructing climate scenarios, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 92(31), 257, doi:10.1029/2011EO310001.
Roy, S.B., L. Chen, E. Girvetz, E.P. Maurer, W.B. Mills, and T.M. Grieb, 2010, Evaluating Sustainability of Projected Water Demands Under Future Climate Change Scenarios, prepared for the Natural Resources Defense Council, July 2010. (online at http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/watersustainability/).
Maurer, E.P., 2009, Water for Life: A Journey to Nicaragua Exploring Sustainable Development, Explore 12(2), 30-34 (online at http://www.scu.edu/ic/publications/upload/explore-spring09.pdf).
Cayan, D., M. Tyree, M. Dettinger, H. Hidalgo, T. Das, E. Maurer, P. Bromirski, N. Graham, and R. Flick, 2009, Climate change scenarios and sea level rise estimates for the California 2008 Climate Change Scenarios Assessment, Public Interest Energy Research Program Reports, Publication # CEC-500-2009-014-D, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, 62 pp. (online at http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/publications/cat/).
Hopmans, J.W. and E. Maurer, 2008, Impact of climate change on irrigation water availability, crop water requirements and soil salinity in the San Joaquin Valley, University of California Water Resources Center. Technical Completion Reports. Paper sd011 (http://repositories.cdlib.org/wrc/tcr/sd011).
Maurer, E.P., L. Brekke, T. Pruitt, and P.B. Duffy, 2007, Fine-resolution climate change projections enhance regional climate change impact studies, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 88(47), 504, doi:10.1029/2007EO470006 (online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2007EO470006/pdf). reprint of EOS article
[member of climate team for]: Frumhoff, P.C., J.J. McCarthy, J.M. Melillo, S.C. Moser, and D.J. Wuebbles, 2007, Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions. Synthesis report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA). Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). (online at http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/).
Union of Concerned Scientists, 2006, Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (online at http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/).
Cayan, D., E. Maurer, M. Dettinger, M. Tyree, K. Hayhoe, C. Bonfils, P. Duffy, and B. Santer, 2006, Climate scenarios for California, California Climate Change Center publication no. CEC-500-2005-203-SF. (online at www.climatechange.ca.gov)
Maurer, E.P., 2006, Using Global Climate Model Output for Impact Analysis, In: 2006 Yearbook of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, p. 102-105. DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB061910.
Union of Concerned Scientists, 2004, Climate Change in California: Choosing Our Future, Declining Snowpack and Risks to Water Supplies, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA (available online at http://www.climatechoices.org/).
Ziegler, A.D., J. Sheffield, E.F. Wood, B. Nijssen, E.P. Maurer and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2002, Detection of intensification of the global water cycle: the potential role of FRIEND, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Redbook publication No. 274, 51-57.
Maurer, E.P., B. Nijssen, D.P. Lettenmaier, 2000, Use of Reanalysis Land Surface Water Budget Variables in Hydrologic Studies, GEWEX News, 10(4) pp. 6-8. November 2000;
Maurer, Edwin P., and Chris X. Rao, 1994, A Model to Calculate Agricultural Return Flows, In: Proceedings AWRA Symposium on Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems, pp. 1117-1125.
Gleick, Peter, H. and Edwin P. Maurer, 1990, Assessing the Costs of Adapting to Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study of San Francisco Bay, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Berkeley, CA. (published on-line 3/2004)

Selected Presentations

Maurer, E.P., Downscaling for the World of Water, NCPP Quantitative Evaluation of Downscaling Workshop, 14 August, 2013.
Maurer, E.P., VIC Hydrology Model Training Workshop, Centro Interdisciplinario de Cambio Global, PUC, Santiago, Chile, 10/11-12/2011)
Maurer, E.P., Taller Downscaling y Análisis de Incertidumbre (workshop on downscaling and uncertainty), Centro Interdisciplinario de Cambio Global, PUC, Santiago, Chile, 9/8-9/2010)
Maurer, E.P., L.D. Brekke, T. Pruitt, K. White, E. Ochs, P. Duffy, and E.H. Girvetz, User-driven downscaling: advances in data apportioning and analysis to augment adaptation planning, (90th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, GA, 1/21/2010)
Maurer, E.P., Translating global models to the local scale, (INVITED presentation at Workshop on Scenarios of Future Climate, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI), Portland, OR, October 28, 2009)
Maurer, E.P., New statistical downscaling techniques for California and the West, (INVITED presentation at 6th Annual California Climate Change Research Symposium, Sacramento, CA, September 9, 2009)
Maurer, E.P., Uncertainty in projected impacts of climate change on water, (INVITED presentation at workshop Cambio Climático y Políticas Públicas, Centro de Cambio Global, Universidad Católica de Chile, April 23, 2009)
Maurer, E.P., H.G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M.D. Dettinger, and D.R. Cayan, Projecting climate change impacts on hydrology: the potential role of daily GCM output, (poster resented at 2008 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/18/2008)
Maurer, E.P., H.G. Hidalgo, D.R. Cayan, M.D. Dettinger and T. Das, Improving statistically downscaled daily data for hydrology: diagnosis and opportunities, (poster resented at Fifth Annual California Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA, 9/9/2008)
Maurer, E.P., Downscaling global climate change projections for assessment of water resources impacts (INVITED at the Texas Water Development Board's Far West Texas Climate Change Conference, 6/17/2008, El Paso, Texas).
Maurer, E.P., Climate change and California water resources: where do we go from here? (INVITED at Environmental Engineering and Science seminar, Stanford Univ., CA, 4/18/2008).
Maurer, E.P. and H. Hidalgo, Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods (at 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/14/2007).
Brekke, L.D., T. Pruitt, E.P. Maurer, and P.B. Duffy, An archive of downscaled WCRP CMIP3 climate projections for planning applications in the contiguous United States (at 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/2007).
Maurer, E.P., Detection of the Climate Change Signal in the Hydrological Record (INVITED at Fourth Annual California Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA, 9/10/2007).
Maurer, E.P. and A.W. Wood, Central America Climate Change: Implications for the Rio Lempa (presented at Spring AGU Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico, 5/22/2007).
Maurer, E.P., Global warming impacts on snow (INVITED at Cross-country Ski Areas Association Meeting, Bear Valley, CA, 4/12/2007).
Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, C. Bonfils, P.B. Duffy, and D. Cayan, Earlier streamflow in the Sierra Nevada: influence of elevation on the detectability of past and projected trends (presented at 2006 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/2006).
Brekke, L.D. and Maurer, E.P., The Significance of Hydrologic Model Selection in studying Climate Change Impacts on Low Flows (presented at 2006 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/2006).
Maurer, E.P., Climate Change Impacts on California mountain hydrology (INVITED at University of Washington Hydrology Group Seminar, Seattle, WA, 10/12/2006).
Maurer, E.P., I.T. Stewart, C. Bonfils and P.D. Duffy, 2006, Detectability of Trends Towards Earlier Streamflow in the Sierra Nevada (presented at 2006 California Energy Commission Climate Change Research Conference, Sacramento, CA, 9/13-15/2006).
Maurer, E.P. and A.W. Wood, Evaluation of hydrologic indices for forecasting Western U.S. seasonal water supply (presented at 2006 Pacific Climate Workshop (PACLIM), Pacific Grove, CA, 3/27-28/2006).
Maurer, E.P., Anticipating Future Climate Change Impacts on California mountain hydrology (presented at 2006 California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum annual meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, 3/1/2006).
Maurer, E.P., Uncertainty in hydrologic impacts of climate change over California's Sierra Nevada Mountains (presented at 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/8/2005).
Maurer, E.P., Global warming impacts on California water: Can we shape the future? (INVITED at U.C. Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series, Davis, CA, 11/21/2005).
Maurer, E.P., Anticipating Future Climate Change in the Western U.S. (INVITED at U.S. Bureau of Reclamation River Systems Management Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, 11/9/2005).
Maurer, E.P., Future Greenhouse Gas Emission and Water Resources Impacts in California (presented at American Water Resources Association 2005 Annual Water Resources Conference, Seattle, WA, 11/8/2005).
Maurer, E.P., Downscaling GCM Output for Regional (CA) Impact Analysis (INVITED at The Nature Conservancy Climate Change and Conservation Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, 10/24/2005).
Maurer, E.P., Evaluating uncertainty in regional hydrologic impacts of climate change using different global models: A California case study (presented at ASCE World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Anchorage, Alaska, 5/17/2005).
Maurer, E.P. and P.B. Duffy, Uncertainty in Projections of Impacts of Climate Change on Sierra Nevada mountain hydrology in California (presented at 2004 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/17/2004).
S. Gibbard, E.P.Maurer and P.B. Duffy, Regional Climate and Hydrological Responses to El Niño in an Increased CO2 Climate (presented at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/17/2004)
Maurer, E.P.Partitioning precipitation into rain and snow for event-based hydrologic modeling in the Pacific Northwest U.S., EOS, Transactions, 85(17), Spring Meet. Suppl., p. 253, Abstract H51G-04, (INVITED: 2004 Joint Assembly of AGU, Montreal, Canada, 5/21/2004)
Maurer, E.P., J. Cetrone, S. Medina, and C. Mass, Partitioning of precipitation into rain and snow in distributed hydrologic simulations in the Western Cascades, Oregon, USA (presented at AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA 1/14/2004)
Maurer, E.P., Lettenmaier, D.P., Mantua, N.J., Variability of United States Runoff and its Climate Teleconnections, EOS, Transactions, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H22B-0917 (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/9/2003).
Doten, C.O., Bowling, L.C., Maurer, E.P., Voisin, N., Lettenmaier, D.P., Development of a Sediment Transport Component for DHSVM, EOS, Transactions, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H52A-1158, 2003 (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/12/2003).
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, The potential value of hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoir systems, GEWEX Americas Prediction Project PI's meeting, Seattle, WA, July 21, 2003.
Maurer, E., (invited) Publication of a large-scale hydrologic data set using the SDSC SRB, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) All-Hands Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 19, 2003.
Maurer, E., Forecasting streamflow with the UW hydrometeorological forecast system, Pacific Northwest Weather Workshop, Seattle, WA, March 8, 2003.
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, Characterizing potential predictability and its sources in the Mississippi River basin, U.S.A., European Geophysical Society XXVII General Assembly, Nice France, April 22, 2002.
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin, AMS/GAPP Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, May 14, 2002.
Maurer, E.P., A.W. Wood, J.C. Adam, B. Nijssen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2001, Derived Continental U.S. Land Surface Hydrologic Fluxes and State Variables, 1950-2000, EOS, Transactions, 82(47) p. F409. (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/11/2001).
Maurer, E.P., Development of a Long-Term Land Surface Data Set For Investigating Hydrologic Predictability, University of Washington/University of British Columbia Joint Hydrology Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., October 12, 2001.
Lettenmaier, D.P., E.P. Maurer and J.O. Roads, GEWEX water and energy budget synthesis study (WEBS) - Early results from GCIP, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, July 10-13, 2001.
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2001, Initializing long-lead ensemble forecasts with remotely sensed snow-covered area observations, EOS, Transactions, 82(20) p. S188. (presented at AGU Spring Meeting, 5/31/2001).
Sheffield, J., E. Maurer, A. Ziegler, E.F. Wood, A. Broccoli, and D.P. Lettenmaier, How well can acceleration of the global water cycle be detected?, EOS, Transactions, 82(20) p. S155, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, May 29, 2001.
Maurer, E.P., P. Storck, N. Christensen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2000, Evaluation of the Snow-Covered Area Data Product from MODIS in the context of Hydrologic Modeling. EOS, Transactions, 81(48) p. F548. (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/19/2000; see web site of presentation - requires Internet Explorer;
Maurer, E.P., G.M. O'Donnell, D.P. Lettenmaier, J.O. Roads, and E.F. Wood, 2000, LDAS Long-Term Retrospective Analyses. EOS, Transactions, 81(19) pp. S201-202. (presented at AGU Spring Meeting, 5/31/2000; see web site of presentation)
Lettenmaier, D.P., E.F. Wood, G.M. O'Donnell and E.P. Maurer, Land data assimilation system retrospective simulations for land surface water and energy balance parameterization, GCIP Principal Investigators Meeting, Potomac, MD, March 27-28, 2000.
O'Donnell, G.M., D.P. Lettenmaier, E.F. Wood, E. Maurer and J.O. Roads, LDAS Retrospective Analyses: A hydrological perspective, AMS 80th Annual Meeting, 15th Conference on Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Jan. 9-14, 2000.
Maurer, E.P., D.P. Lettenmaier, and J.O. Roads, 1999, Water Balance of the Mississippi River basin from a Macroscale Hydrologic Model and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. EOS, Transactions, 80(46) pp. F409-410. (presented at AGU Fall Meeting, 12/16/99; see web site of poster)