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March 9, 2023

From the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and...

THIS JUST IN …Governor Newsom Signs Order to Build Water Resilience Amid Climate-Driven Extreme Weather

Office of Governor Gavin Newsom

Groundwater News

February 13, 2023

From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an executive order to protect the state’s water supplies...

PNNL: Wettest winter storms in the western U.S. growing wetter

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Climate change

January 19, 2023

As Western U.S. winter storms grow wetter and change shape, threats to infrastructure like roads and bridges grow in tandem...

PNNL: Western wildfires spark stronger storms in downwind states

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

News articles

October 18, 2022

When wildfires burn in the west, their heat and airborne particles inflict stronger rain and larger hail upon central states...

DWR NEWS: Big Storms, Dry Spells, Demonstrate the Need for Improved Infrastructure and the Delta Conveyance Project

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Delta Conveyance Project

April 20, 2022

From DWR News California is immersed in a third year of drought, with January, February and March of 2022 experiencing...

ESTUARY NEWS: Atmospheric Rivers Intensifying as World Warms: How the West Will Know What’s Coming

Robin Meadows

Best of the Notebook Climate change Notebook News and Features

April 14, 2022

Article written by Robin Meadows, Estuary News In just a few years, tracking the West Coast’s atmospheric rivers by airplane...

DWR NEWS: Challenges of Forecasting Water Supply in a Hotter Climate

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Climate change Planning and management

April 11, 2022

From DWR News On April 8, DWR published the Bulletin 120 and Water Supply Index (WSI) forecast update. The Bulletin...

FEATURE: How the West Can Survive Smaller Snowpacks and Bigger Atmospheric Rivers

Robin Meadows

Best of the Notebook Climate change Delta science

December 15, 2021

by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during...

PUBLICATION: Water Year 2021: An Extreme Year

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Reports

October 2, 2021

From the Department of Water Resources: Water Year 2021 (October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021) was an extreme year...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

Maven

Best of the Notebook Climate change Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

June 17, 2020

In October 2019, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Priorities for California’s Water, which outlined California’s...

THE CONVERSATION: Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding – and climate change is making them stronger

The Conversation

Hydrology

January 27, 2020

By Tom Corringham, University of California, San Diego Ask people to name the world’s largest river, and most will probably...

USGS: New scale to characterize strength and impacts of atmospheric river storms

USGS

Hydrology

February 11, 2019

A team of researchers has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of “atmospheric rivers,” long narrow bands...

PNNL: Atmosphere outpaces ocean in driving extreme winter weather on West Coast

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Science

October 1, 2018

Researchers found that sea surface temperature, the more predictable element of the climate system, accounts for only 20 percent of...

NASA/JPL: Climate change may lead to bigger atmospheric rivers

NASA/JPL

Climate change

May 24, 2018

A new NASA-led study shows the events are likely to intensify, but become slightly less frequent, across most of the...

PNNL: Wetter winters could be in store for Western U.S.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Science

April 23, 2018

Scientists discovered stronger and longer atmospheric rivers that lead to increasing precipitation extremes over the region By Pacific Northwest National...