Modeling and forecasting Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

September 6, 2025

By Sonia Fernandez, UC Santa Barbara The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study...

MET IMPORTED WATER SUBCOMM: A new lens on the Colorado River: Why future projections will look bleaker

Colorado River Notebook News and Features

September 3, 2025

The Bureau of Reclamation is currently preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to establish new operational guidelines for Lake Powell...

THE WATER DESK: When the West’s rivers surge each spring, older groundwater dominates the runoff

The Water Desk

Hydrology

September 3, 2025

A better understanding of groundwater in the headwaters could improve streamflow predictions. By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk Every spring,...

UC BERKELEY: Modeling the key role of irrigation for farming in a hotter world

UC Berkeley

Agriculture

July 23, 2025

From UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management: For over a century, agricultural scientists have sought to unravel...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

Inside Climate News

Colorado River Hydrology

July 18, 2025

Climate change is warming the North Pacific Ocean, leading weather patterns that drive drought in the U.S. Southwest to persist...

DWR advances groundbreaking climate-resilient flood mapping through FEMA partnership

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Planning and management

July 17, 2025

Pioneering effort modernizes flood risk analysis in California’s Central Valley by integrating future climate scenarios, revealing a growing risk of...

THE CURRENT: A nuanced model of soil moisture illuminates plant behavior and climate patterns

UC Santa Barbara

Agriculture

July 10, 2025

By Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to...

NIDIS: Digging Into the Significance of Soil Moisture at the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop

NIDIS

Hydrology

July 8, 2025

By NIDIS On the second morning of the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop, keynote speaker Syed Huq reminded the audience:...

NASA: By air and by sea: Validating NASA’s PACE ocean color instrument

NASA/JPL

Ecosystems

June 30, 2025

By Milan Loiacono, NASA In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds,...

STANFORD: Colorado River water market could help fish and farmers alike

Stanford University

Colorado River

June 20, 2025

A new water market model for the Colorado River basin could improve water security and restore ecosystems amid intensifying shortages....

YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Why imperfect climate models are more helpful than you think

Yale Climate Connections

Planning and management

June 20, 2025

Even flawed models are helping scientists unlock new truths about our changing planet. By Ryan O’Loughlin, Yale Climate Connections Our...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Wet soils increase flooding during atmospheric river storms

Desert Research Institute

Hydrology

June 13, 2025

A new study examined decades of atmospheric river storms across the West Coast to pinpoint the conditions that lead to...

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: Spring runoff is older than you think

University of Utah

Hydrology

June 4, 2025

New research finds water flowing out of Western ranges is, on average, more than 5 years old, demonstrating that runoff...

NOAA’s atmospheric river research: Serving up data rain or shine

NOAA Research

Planning and management

May 27, 2025

A network of year-round observing stations help meteorologists forecast extreme rainfall events From NOAA Research As the western United States...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: From forecast to flow: Optimizing California’s reservoirs with FIRO

Maven

Notebook News and Features Water project operations

May 8, 2025

California is adapting to increasingly intense storm patterns, largely driven by atmospheric rivers. These narrow bands of concentrated water vapor...