THE CONVERSATION: Hurricane Hilary triggers California’s first tropical storm watch ever, with heavy rain and flash flooding forecast The Conversation News and Features August 18, 2023 78By Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja peninsula as a powerful Category 4 storm, and...
KNEE DEEP TIMES: Why California’s Water Extremes Are Wilder than Ever — And What We Can Do About It Robin Meadows News and Features May 9, 2023 419Written by Robin Meadows What a relief last winter is finally over. In late December, California was hit by the...
DWR NEWS: Challenges of Forecasting Water Supply During Extreme Weather Events DWR News News and Features April 10, 2023 6By DWR News The series of atmospheric rivers in early 2023 demonstrated how quickly California can move from one extreme...
THE CONVERSATION: Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look The Conversation News and Features March 16, 2023 20By Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....
GRIST: How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers Grist News and Features March 15, 2023 22As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. By Jake Bittle, Grist...
AGU: The world’s atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes American Geophysical Union News and Features March 9, 2023From the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and...
DWR NEWS: California’s Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations Are Key to Managing Floods and Water Supplies DWR News News and Features January 16, 2023 13By DWR News As California experiences more extreme swings between wet and dry periods, it is critical for the State...
THE CONVERSATION: How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific The Conversation News and Features January 6, 2023 29By Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that...
DWR NEWS: Big Storms, Dry Spells, Demonstrate the Need for Improved Infrastructure and the Delta Conveyance Project DWR News Agency News April 20, 2022From DWR News California is immersed in a third year of drought, with January, February and March of 2022 experiencing...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Possible futures for a Delta island; Ag and urban water use; Estimating freshwater flows; fish monitoring; and more … Maven Estuary Pearls April 15, 2022 121This issue explores possible futures for a Delta island, and features research from the latest issue of San Francisco Estuary...
ESTUARY NEWS: Atmospheric Rivers Intensifying as World Warms: How the West Will Know What’s Coming Robin Meadows Best of the Notebook April 14, 2022 244Article written by Robin Meadows, Estuary News In just a few years, tracking the West Coast’s atmospheric rivers by airplane...
FEATURE: How the West Can Survive Smaller Snowpacks and Bigger Atmospheric Rivers Robin Meadows Best of the Notebook December 15, 2021 795by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during...
FEATURE: Predicting and planning for extreme precipitation from atmospheric rivers Maven News and Features May 20, 2020 437On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture...
SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY AND WATERSHED SCIENCE JOURNAL: Analyses of large storms and atmospheric rivers; Evaluations of fish surveys; Impacts of predator species on juvenile salmon; Alternative juvenile salmon production estimate approaches Maven Science Publications December 21, 2018 150RESEARCH Hourly Analyses of the Large Storms and Atmospheric Rivers that Provide Most of California’s Precipitation in Only 10 to...
California Weather Blog: Northern California rain at times this week; amplified North Pacific ridge to return? Maven Press Release/Other February 14, 2014 248From the California Weather Blog: ” … While the recent atmospheric river did bring much-needed precipitation to parts of Northern...
