Climate information comes with a variety of uncertainties, some of which are not quantifiable. This project explores opportunities for robust, no regret, decision making for drought standard operating ...

The overall objective of the project was to research and recommend sustainable, reliable solutions for rural drinking water supply system(s) which could be scaled up to increase coverage for rural ...

Monsoons drive seasonal variations. Yet climate change threatens to disrupt the regular, alternating periods of rain and arid dryness. The dry season may become more arid, driving water demand, while ...

The Columbia Global Floods Initiative aims to save lives and protect livelihoods by helping policymakers, disaster relief agencies, infrastructure designers, financial institutions and others better ...

A non-homogeneous hidden Markov model is used with monthly SST data (Rojo Hernández et al., 2020) to objectively classify spatial patterns of SST and their temporal dynamics, for the Tropical Pacific ...

Working with its partners, the Columbia Water Center has developed Climate-informed forecasts for ENSO, Streamflow, floods, Lake levels and Precipitation since 2000. These forecasts have been based on ...

Candace Agonafir has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from NYU, and a B.S. in Physical Science with a concentration in Physics and a ...

Nicole van Maanen is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin and works as a Research Analyst at Climate Analytics. She was a visiting researcher at the Columbia Water Center in 2023 with ...

In partnership with the instructors of the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem, the Columbia Water Center is investigating how water data platforms can augment the learning experience of students ...

The Columbia Water Center was engaged in a multi-year research project on interstate agreements for managing transboundary rivers in the western United States (funded by the National Science ...

Expanding on previous research done by the Aquanauts on public water utilities, this project incorporates private water utility survey data into the national water rates analysis to determine the ...

Water is a critical resource for mining operations, yet, often the risks associated with its temporal and spatial variability and the shared nature of water, are not adequately incorporated in ...