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Advancing the Representation of Human Actions in Large‐Scale Hydrological Models: Challenges and Future Research Directions Open

Stefano Galelli, Sean Turner, Yadu Pokhrel, Jia Yi Ng, Andrea Castelletti , et al. · 2025

Characterizing the impact of human actions on terrestrial water fluxes and storages at multi‐basin, continental, and global scales has long been on the agenda of scientists engaged in climate science, hydrology, and water resources systems…

Forty-year hydropower generation reanalysis for Conterminous United States Open

Sean Turner, Debjani Singh, Carly Hansen, Shih‐Chieh Kao · 2025

First published in 2022, the RectifHyd dataset provides hydrologically consistent estimates of monthly net generation for approximately 1,500 hydropower plants in the United States, addressing a gap in industrial surveys that have collecte…

Advancing the Representation of Human Actions in Large-Scale Hydrological Models: Challenges and Future Research Directions Open

Stefano Galelli, Sean Turner, Yadu Pokhrel, Jia Yi Ng, Andrea Castelletti , et al. · 2025

The Case for Sustainable Engineering in Undergraduate Engineering Education Open

Sean Turner · 2025

HydroWIRES B1: Monthly and Weekly Hydropower Constraints Based on Disaggregated EIA-923 Data Open

Sean Turner, Cameron Bracken, Nathalie Voisin, Konstantinos Oikonomou · 2024

This dataset provides both monthly and weekly constraints (maximum and minimum generation) and power targets for hundreds of hydropower plants across the United States. The data is intended for use in Production Cost Models (PCMs) and Capa…

Hydropower capacity factors trending down in the United States Open

Sean Turner, Ganesh R. Ghimire, Carly Hansen, Debjani Singh, Shih‐Chieh Kao · 2024

RectifHyd Open

Sean Turner, Nathalie Voisin, Kristian Nelson, Cameron Bracken · 2024

See also: RectifHydPlus - A subsequent open dataset authored by Sean Turner is available at DOI 0.21951/rectifhydplus_v1.1/3006281. Providing monthly hydropower for 593 plants with nameplate capacity > 10MW, RectifHydPlus includes addition…

Multisectoral analysis of drought impacts and management responses to the 2008–2015 record drought in the Colorado Basin, Texas Open

Stephen B. Ferencz, Ning Sun, Sean Turner, Brian A. Smith, Jennie S. Rice · 2024

Drought has long posed an existential threat to society. Engineering and technological advancements have enabled the development of complex, interconnected water supply systems that buffer societies from the impacts of drought, enabling gr…

Global peak water limit of future groundwater withdrawals Open

Hassan Niazi, Thomas Wild, Sean Turner, Neal T. Graham, Mohamad Hejazi , et al. · 2024

HydroWIRES B1: Monthly and Weekly Hydropower Constraints Based on Disaggregated EIA-923 Data Open

Sean Turner, Cameron Bracken, Nathalie Voisin, Konstantinos Oikonomou · 2024

This dataset provides both monthly and weekly constraints (maximum and minimum generation) and power targets for hundreds of hydropower plants across the United States. The data is intended for use in Production Cost Models (PCMs) and Capa…

RectifHyd Version 2.0: Historical and counterfactual-climatological hydropower monthly generation totals for CONUS plants, 1980 – 2019 Open

Sean Turner, Debjani Singh, Carly Hanson, Shih-Chieh Kao · 2024

This dataset will contain the following files: - RectifHydV2.zip – the RectifHydV2 dataset, split into two files: o RectifHydV2_Actual_MWh.csv: Estimated actual monthly net generation from 590 Hydropower Plants (>10MW nameplate) in CONUS, …

Hydropower Infrastructure – LAkes, Reservoirs, and RIvers (HILARRI) Open

Carly Hansen, Paul G. Matson, Bryan B. Bozeman, Sean Turner · 2024

HILARRI is a database of links between major datasets of operational hydropower dams and powerplants, and inland water bodies. These connections are critical for conducting large-scale analysis of hydropower infrastructure and their associ…

Facilitating adaptation: Lessons learnt from engaging and supporting the primary health and community services sector in climate change adaptation Open

Hartmut Fuenfgeld, Sean Turner, Alianne Rance, Philip J. Wallis, Karyn Bosomworth , et al. · 2024

The main purpose of this report is to present a case for the design and implementation of a program to engage government-funded agencies and service providers in planning for climate change through adaptation. The report focuses on increas…

Hydropower Capacity Factor Trends & Analytics for the United States Open

Sean Turner, Debjani Singh, Ganesh R. Ghimire, Carly Hansen, Shih‐Chieh Kao · 2024

This data repository contains all code, input data, and data generated for Turner et al. (2024)—“Hydropower capacity factors trending down in the United States”. File descriptions: – hydro-cf-trends-inputs.zip: Full set of input data used …

Strategies for embedding climate change adaptation in public sector organisations: A Review of the Academic and Grey Literature Open

Sean Turner, Susie Moloney, Adrian G. Glover, Hartmut Fünfgeld · 2024

"How Well Are We Adapting?" is a three year project developed and led by the Western Alliance for Greenhouse Action (WAGA); a partnership of councils from across Melbourne's Western Region. The aim of the project is to develop a monitoring…

Comment on nhess-2023-149 Open

Stephen B. Ferencz, Ning Sun, Sean Turner, Brian Anthony Smith, Jennie S. Rice · 2023

Abstract. Drought has long posed an existential threat to society. Engineering and technological advancements have enabled the development of complex, interconnected water supply systems that buffer societies from the impa…

RectifHyd Open

Sean Turner, Nathalie Voisin, Kristian Nelson, Cameron Bracken · 2023

RectifHyd provides estimated monthly hydroelectric power generation for approximately 1,500 power plants in conterminous United States for the period 2001 through 2022. Monthly generation estimates are created by disaggregating each plant'…

RectifHyd Open

Sean Turner, Nathalie Voisin, Kristian Nelson, Cameron Bracken · 2023

RectifHyd provides estimated monthly hydroelectric power generation for approximately 1,500 power plants in conterminous United States for the period 2001 through 2022. Monthly generation estimates are created by disaggregating each plant'…

Enhancing the representation of water management in global hydrological models Open

Guta Wakbulcho Abeshu, Fuqiang Tian, Thomas Wild, Mengqi Zhao, Sean Turner , et al. · 2023

This study enhances an existing global hydrological model (GHM), Xanthos, by adding a new water management module that distinguishes between the operational characteristics of irrigation, hydropower, and flood control reservoirs. We remapp…

Supplementary material to "Multisectoral analysis of drought impacts and management responses to the 2008–2015 record drought in the Colorado Basin, Texas: A blueprint for regional multisectoral drought impact assessment" Open

Stephen B. Ferencz, Ning Sun, Sean Turner, Brian A. Smith, Jennie S. Rice · 2023

SI Figure 1: Number of public water supply water

Multisectoral analysis of drought impacts and management responses to the 2008–2015 record drought in the Colorado Basin, Texas: A blueprint for regional multisectoral drought impact assessment Open

Stephen B. Ferencz, Ning Sun, Sean Turner, Brian A. Smith, Jennie S. Rice · 2023

Drought has long posed an existential threat to society. Engineering and technological advancements have enabled the development of complex, interconnected water supply systems that buffer societies from the impacts of drought, enabling gr…

Hydro 923: Monthly and Weekly Hydropower Constraints Based on Disaggregated EIA-923 Data Open

Sean Turner, Nathalie Voisin, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Cameron Bracken · 2023