Sonoma Water has announced plans to update its climate change models for the Russian River watershed using the latest available data. Sonoma Valley and the City of  Sonoma both are contractors with the agency, and receive water from the Russian River. The agency will partner with Flint HydroScience, LLC to incorporate new climate projections into its Basin Characterization Model, which is used to estimate stream flows and analyze potential impacts to water supplies. … The $86,000 project will utilize new climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 that are included in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Assessment Report. This represents the most current scientific projections of future climate conditions.