By Aaron Levine, University of Washington Winter is still weeks away, but meteorologists are already talking about a snowy winter ahead in the southern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. They anticipate more storms in the U.S. South and Northeast, and...
From NASA: NASA scientists are testing a technology that could more accurately measure water stored in snow as seen from a satellite in orbit. Melting snow provides much of the water that the western United States depend on for agriculture and...
A lack of data from the Eastern Pacific Ocean makes it hard to project whether global warming will increase tropical storm risks in Southern California. By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a...
As rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events that could trigger floods and landslides – potentially impacting a quarter of the world’s population By Lauren Biron, Berkeley Lab...
DRI contributes to research concluding lower-elevation ski resorts could lose more than 70 percent of their natural snow supply By the Desert Research Institute DRI’s Benjamin Hatchett, Ph.D, and Michael Dettinger, Ph.D., coauthored a new study in the journal Climate...
