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THE CONVERSATION: How well-managed dams and smart forecasting can limit flooding as extreme storms become more common in a warming world

July 25, 2023

By Riley Post, University of Iowa, The Conversation The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across...

BERKELEY LAB: Mountains Vulnerable to Extreme Rain from Climate Change

Berkeley Lab

Climate change Hydrology

June 30, 2023

As rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Rainfall Extremes Increasingly Threaten Mountain Regions and Areas Downstream From Them

Inside Climate News

Climate change Hydrology

June 30, 2023

A new study suggests the threat of flooding rains, landslides and erosion has been underestimated, especially in high-elevation and snow-dominated regions. By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News A global increase of extreme precipitation, well outside the range of natural variability,...

THE CONVERSATION: El Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news, depending on where you live

The Conversation

Hydrology

June 9, 2023

Written by Bob Leamon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This article was originally published at The Conversation. El Niño is...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: California Snowlines On Track To Be 1,600 Feet Higher by Century’s End

Desert Research Institute

Hydrology

May 31, 2023

DRI contributes to research concluding lower-elevation ski resorts could lose more than 70 percent of their natural snow supply By...

GRIST: El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion

Grist

Hydrology

May 18, 2023

A new study shows the weather cycle packs a heavy financial punch. By Zoya Teirstein, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Forecasters are predicting the formation of an El Niño later...

KNEE DEEP TIMES: Why California’s Water Extremes Are Wilder than Ever — And What We Can Do About It

Robin Meadows

Hydrology Planning and management

May 9, 2023

Written by Robin Meadows What a relief last winter is finally over. In late December, California was hit by the...

THE CONVERSATION: Epic snow from all those atmospheric rivers in the West is starting to melt, and the flood danger is rising

The Conversation

Current Conditions Hydrology

April 17, 2023

Q&A with Chad Hecht, Research and Operations Meteorologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego...

NASA/JPL: Ranking Atmospheric Rivers: New Study Finds World of Potential

NASA/JPL

Hydrology

March 16, 2023

By NASA/JPL Like hurricane categories, a scale for atmospheric river storm severity could help communities around the globe compare and prepare. Atmospheric rivers – vast airborne corridors of water vapor flowing from Earth’s tropics toward higher latitudes – can steer...

GRIST: How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers

Grist

Climate change Hydrology

March 15, 2023

As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. By Jake Bittle, Grist...

THE CONVERSATION: Why rain on snow in the California mountains worries scientists

The Conversation

Climate change Hydrology

March 14, 2023

By Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms...

AGU: The world’s atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes

American Geophysical Union

Hydrology

March 9, 2023

From the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and frequent with climate change. A new study demonstrates that a recently developed scale for atmospheric river intensity (akin to the...

JEANINE JONES: Drought and lessons learned

Maven

Hydrology Notebook News and Features

March 1, 2023

At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Jeanine Jones took the commissioners through the history of past droughts...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Wildfires are increasingly burning California’s snowy landscapes and colliding with winter droughts to shrink California’s snowpack

Desert Research Institute

Hydrology Wildfires and watersheds

February 1, 2023

A new study shows that midwinter dry spells lead to dramatic losses of winter snowpack in burned areas By the...

NEVADA CURRENT: More snow in the mountains may not lead to more water, study finds

Nevada Current

Hydrology

January 23, 2023

by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Mountains in the southwestern U.S. are welcoming record-breaking snowpacks this year, but new research shows they are melting at a record pace too. Winter storms have provided the Sierra Nevada snowpack with some of the...