Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Prospects for Understanding and Predicting Variability of Climate -- 1: Predicting Climate Variations in the American West: What Are Our Prospects? -- 2: Climate Variability in the West: Complex Spatial Structure Associated With Topography, and Observational Issues -- 3: Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability -- 4: Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination of Climate Data -- Part Two: Linkages Between Prediction of Climate and Hydrology -- 5: Use of Weather and Climate Information in Forecasting Water Supply in the Western United States -- 6: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Western United States -- 7: Improving Water-Resource System Performance Through Long-Range Climate Forecasts: The Pacific Northwest Experience -- 8: Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and Hydrology Reached Its Full Potential? -- Part Three: Responses of Water Managers to Climate Variability and Climate Change -- 9: What Can Water Managers Do About Climate Variability and Change? -- 10: Management of Colorado River Resources -- 11: Water Development and Management Along the South Platte River of Colorado -- 12: Can Climate Predictions Be of Practical Use in Western Water Management? -- Color Plates -- Part Four: Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Water -- 13: A Changing Geography: Growth, Land Use, and Water in the Interior West -- 14: Constraints of Law and Policy on the Management of Western Water -- 15: Economic and Institutional Strategies for Adapting to Water-Resource Effects of Climate Change -- 16: Climate Variability: Social, Policy, and Institutional Issues -- Part Five: Analyzing the Analysts -- 17: Western Water Resources and "Climate of Opinion" Variables -- About the Contributors -- Index.