Researchers suggest that humans need to enhance flood management strategies in response to the rise in 100-year floods. By Chloe Baul, Courthouse News Service Rivers are undergoing a dramatic transformation worldwide, with headwater streams swelling and downstream basins shrinking. A...
Higher temperatures can cause droughts even with normal precipitation Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by scientists from the University...
By NASA Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from snowy peaks into the rivers, reservoirs, and streams that supply millions of Americans with freshwater—as much as 75% of the...
By Robin Meadows In the late 1990s, hardly anyone had heard of the storms called atmospheric rivers. That includes Marty Ralph, founding director of Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) and a leading expert on these relatively recently...
From NOAA Research: For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the United States, including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible precipitation, termed Probable Maximum Precipitation or PMP....
