Hydroclimatic Extremes as Challenges for the Water Management Community: Lessons from Oroville Dam and Hurricane Harvey

AFFILIATIONS: VAno AnD Miller—NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; Dettinger—U.S. Geological Survey, Water Cycle Branch, Carson City, Nevada; cifelli—NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado; curtis—WEST Consultants, Folsom, California; Dufour—San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Water Enterprise, San Francisco, California; olsen—Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia; Wilson—Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Julie A. Vano, jvano@ucar.edu

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