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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences <br />UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER and NOAA <br />Stakeholder-led demand <br />No widely available public- or private-sector ET0 forecasts <br />Permit more-informed water management, conservation decisions <br />Potential users and uses: <br />Agricultural users, especially irrigators – plan daily to weekly irrigation <br />Academic / agricultural outreach community <br />Water resource managers of sophisticated supply systems – forecast demand <br />at weekly or longer time-scales <br />USBR – plan reservoir releases, especially a week or two out <br />USFS – nation’s water supply <br />NIDIS – support near-future analysis in drought conditions <br /> <br />Short-term forecasting of ET0 <br />NOAA’s motivations