From the Desert Research Institute: Many Western communities rely on snow from mountain forests as a source of drinking water...
Loss of water from Sierra Nevada rocks caused the California mountains to rise almost an inch during the recent drought....
Atmospheric Rivers Pushed Total to 89.7 Inches since October 1 From the Department of Water Resources: Never in nearly a century of Department of Water Resources (DWR) recordkeeping has so much precipitation fallen in the northern Sierra in a water...
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...
Future climate change projections often focus on the average impacts over time or space, or target changes in extreme climate events. But when it comes to understanding changes in water, consider the probabilities. From Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Results: Seattle is...
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...
What does drought look like? I tried this once before last year. Optimistically, I engaged some of my readers and encouraged them and myself to go out and photograph the drought, only to realize that it really is much harder...
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,...
The state climatologist discusses the current drought and the signs of climate change. Is the current drought a harbinger of the future? With the winter season once again seemingly passing California by, officials are bracing for a fourth year 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...
Today, Maven welcomes guest blogger Robert Shibatani to the Notebook blog. Robert Shibatani is a physical hydrologist and long-time consultant for the California water industry, and is Vice Chair of the Environmental & Water Resources Institute/ASCE Norcal Chapter, among other...