New dataset and publication identify link between atmospheric rivers and wildfire in the interior Southwest. By the USGS Climate Adaptation...
January storms may have recouped 37 percent of California’s five-year deficit in snow water. By NASA/JPL The “atmospheric river” weather patterns that pummeled California with storms from late December to late January may have recouped 37 percent of the state’s...
Future climate change projections often focus on the average impacts over time or space, or target changes in extreme climate...
A new study finds atmospheric river storms are 2.5 times more likely than other types of winter storms to cause...
USGS: The Role of Snowpack, Rainfall, and Reservoirs in Buffering California Against Drought Impacts
How reservoirs, snowpack and rainfall help California survive droughts. California’s vast reservoir system, fed by annual snow- and rainfall, plays an important part in providing water to the State’s human and wildlife population. There are almost 1,300 reservoirs throughout the...
What does drought look like? I tried this once before last year. Optimistically, I engaged some of my readers and...
A new NASA study has concluded California accumulated a debt of about 20 inches of precipitation between 2012 and 2015....
Peter Gleick, Noah Diffenbaugh, Wade Crowfoot, and Solomon Hsiang discuss the current drought and climate change, focusing on water resources, climate risks, economic impacts, and policy solutions The Hamilton Project at Brookings and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment...
The state climatologist discusses the current drought and the signs of climate change. Is the current drought a harbinger of...
The University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) has developed a series of webinars titled Insights: Water and Drought...
Dr. Marty Ralph is the director of the new Center for Western Water and Water Extremes, as well as the director of the Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In the fall of 2013 at the National Water Research Institute’s...
Today, Maven welcomes guest blogger Robert Shibatani to the Notebook blog. Robert Shibatani is a physical hydrologist and long-time consultant...