By Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Jeanine Jones took the commissioners through the history of past droughts and the lessons learned. As Division Chief for Interstate Resources Management at the California Department of Water Resources, Ms. Jones...
A new study highlights how persistent high pressure in April 2021 drove widespread rapid snow loss From the Desert Research Institute: Snow-capped mountains aren’t just scenic – they also provide natural water storage by creating reservoirs of frozen water that...
Already crippled by years of megadrought, California may have another climate change-induced worry on the horizon: economy-busting megafloods. By Madalyn...
PNNL scientists participate in project to collect climate data in Colorado mountains By Allan Brettman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory An ambitious Department of Energy (DOE) field campaign seeks to better understand the timing and availability of mountainous water resources. Pacific...
By Todd Plain, Bureau of Reclamation As snow continues to pile up in the Sierra Nevada mountains at the start of 2022, local and federal water managers alike, eagerly anticipate data from snow surveys to find out how much snow is on the ground, the water content of the snow, and exactly where it has fallen. Estimating...
The Sacramento and San Joaquin water-year type indices are fundamental to the State Water Project and Central Valley Project operations as every year, how much water is allocated to whom depends on whether the hydrology is expected to be wet,...
