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Casey Brown is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on the subfields of global and planetary change, water science and technology, ocean engineering, atmospheric science, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include water resources management and optimization, hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and drought analysis, the water-energy-food nexus, climate change impacts on agriculture, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Urbanizing the floodplain: global changes of imperviousness in flood-prone areas" (2022) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Incorporating non-stationarity from climate change into rainfall frequency and intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves" (2022) published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Vulnerability and risk: climate change and water supply from California's Central Valley water system" (2020) published in Climatic Change
  • "Evaluating existing water supply reservoirs as small-scale pumped hydroelectric storage options - A case study in Connecticut" (2021) published in Energy
  • "Resilience by design in Mexico City: A participatory human-hydrologic systems approach" (2020) published in Water Security

The most frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Climatic Change
  • Water Security

Casey Brown has collaborated with several coauthors on multiple occasions, including Baptiste François, Manuel Pulido-Velàzquez, Patrick Ray, Sarah Freeman, and Manuela Girotto.

Best Publications

  • Decision scaling: Linking bottom-up vulnerability analysis with climate projections in the water sector

    Casey Brown;Yonas Ghile;Mikaela Laverty;Ke Li

  • Sustainable water management under future uncertainty with eco-engineering decision scaling

    N. LeRoy Poff;Casey M. Brown;Theodore E. Grantham;John H. Matthews

  • Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision making: the value and demands of robust decision frameworks

    Christopher P. Weaver;Robert J. Lempert;Casey Brown;John A Hall

  • Investment decision making under deep uncertainty -- application to climate change

    Stephane Hallegatte;Ankur Shah;Robert J. Lempert;Robert J. Lempert;Casey Brown

  • The future of water resources systems analysis: Toward a scientific framework for sustainable water management

    Casey M. Brown;Jay R. Lund;Ximing Cai;Patrick M. Reed

  • Securing Water, Sustaining Growth: Report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth

    C.W. Sadoff;J.W. Hall;D. Grey;J.C.J.H. Aerts

  • Water and economic development : The role of variability and a framework for resilience

    Casey Brown;Upmanu Lall

  • An alternate approach to assessing climate risks

    Casey Brown;Robert L. Wilby

  • Coping with the curse of freshwater variability

    J. W. Hall;D. Grey;D. Garrick;F. Fung

  • Climate informed flood frequency analysis and prediction in Montana using hierarchical Bayesian modeling

    Hyun-Han Kwon;Casey Brown;Upmanu Lall

  • A Decision‐Analytic Approach to Managing Climate Risks: Application to the Upper Great Lakes1

    Casey Brown;William Werick;Wendy Leger;David Fay

  • A semiparametric multivariate, multisite weather generator with low‐frequency variability for use in climate risk assessments

    Scott Steinschneider;Casey Brown

  • Ecosystem services: Challenges and opportunities for hydrologic modeling to support decision making

    Andrew John Guswa;Kate A. Brauman;Casey Brown;Perrine Hamel

  • Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design: The Decision Tree Framework

    Patrick Alexander Ray;Casey M. Brown

  • The Indus Basin of Pakistan: The Impacts of Climate Risks on Water and Agriculture

    Winston H. Yu;Yi-Chen E. Yang;Andre Savitsky;D. K. Alford

  • Hydroclimate risk to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

    Casey Brown;Robyn Meeks;Kenneth Hunu;Winston Yu

  • Design considerations for riverine floods in a changing climate - A review

    B. François;K.E. Schlef;S. Wi;C.M. Brown

  • Assessing groundwater policy with coupled economic-groundwater hydrologic modeling

    Kevin B. Mulligan;Casey Brown;Yi-Chen E. Yang;David P. Ahlfeld

  • The integrated effects of climate and hydrologic uncertainty on future flood risk assessments

    Scott Steinschneider;Sungwook Wi;Casey Brown

  • The future nexus of the Brahmaputra River Basin: Climate, water, energy and food trajectories

    Y.C. Ethan Yang;Sungwook Wi;Patrick A. Ray;Casey M. Brown

  • The End of Reliability

    Casey Brown

  • Improving the Contribution of Climate Model Information to Decision Making

    Christopher P. Weaver;Robert J. Lempert;Casey Brown;John A. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall Columbia University
Robert J. Lempert
Robert J. Lempert RAND Corporation
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Faisal Hossain
Faisal Hossain University of Washington
Seth Westra
Seth Westra University of Adelaide
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute
Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales

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