UC MERCED: Warming climate pushes rain to higher elevations, raising flooding risks UC Merced Climate changeScience February 6, 2024By Professor Roger Bales, UC Merced A new study co-authored by UC Merced researchers assesses the effect of a warming...
SGMA Implementation: DWR’s Groundwater Models Provide Valuable Resources for Managers of California’s Critical Water Supply Department of Water Resources (DWR) Groundwater News February 2, 2024From the Department of Water Resources California’s historic effort to bring sustainability to the state’s critically important groundwater basins revealed...
NIDIS: Understanding Water Supply Forecast Error on the Colorado River NIDIS Colorado River January 10, 2024By Peter Goble, Russ Schumacher, Colorado Climate Center The Colorado River is perhaps the most critical resource to the southwestern...
Q & A: Today’s data and past history could add up to a more equitable way to divvy up California’s water Janet Byron Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater rights and water law January 9, 2024Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s...
EOS: Weather and watershed forecasting make for dam smart water use American Geophysical Union Hydrology December 13, 2023By Nicole Choi, AGU In December 2012, heavy downpours from an atmospheric river—a long atmospheric pathway that transports large amounts...
PRESS RELEASE: New report confirms benefits of FIRO strategy in enhancing water management at Prado Dam Orange County Water District Planning and managementReports December 5, 2023Press release from the Orange County Water District, Army Corps of Engineers, and Scripps Institute of Oceanography A new report...
UC RIVERSIDE: Model to illustrate scenarios for the Colorado River water use UC Riverside Colorado River November 2, 2023Difficult choices loom as climate change reduces water flows By David Danelski The Colorado River is a lifeblood for the...
EOS: Dust Is Melting Snow—And Current Models Can’t Keep Up American Geophysical Union Hydrology October 25, 2023Mountain snowpack melts quicker when coated in dust. This cyclical problem is forcing water forecasts to evolve. By Kara West,...
THE CONVERSATION: What is a strong El Niño? Meteorologists anticipate a big impact in winter 2023, but the forecasts don’t all agree The Conversation Hydrology October 12, 2023By Aaron Levine, University of Washington Winter is still weeks away, but meteorologists are already talking about a snowy winter...
PRESS RELEASE: Weather Tools, Inc. Partners with Baron Weather, Inc. to revolutionize water year precipitation forecasting for California Press Release/Notice Hydrology October 11, 2023Press release from Weather Tools, Inc. Weather Tools, Inc. (Weather Tools) an innovative weather forecasting company based in Chico, CA,...
DWR NEWS: New Water Year Underway, California Prepares for a Possible Wet El Niño Year Department of Water Resources (DWR) Current Conditions October 4, 2023From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today highlighted how the State and its federal...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: California prepares for El Niño winter after a year of extreme heat and floods Courthouse News Service Current Conditions October 3, 2023The state water department’s director said her highest priority is for the federal government to help improve California’s ability to...
VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: It’s Hard to Predict What the Coming El Niño Will Bring Voice of San Diego Current Conditions September 29, 2023This periodically recurring atmospheric phenomenon in recent years has become just too unreliable to count on. By Robert Krier, Voice...
NASA Tech Lets Scientists See Snow-Water Through the Trees NASA/JPL Hydrology September 21, 2023From NASA: NASA scientists are testing a technology that could more accurately measure water stored in snow as seen from a...
DELTA SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT: Fall X2 Action, Delta collaborative modeling project funded Maven Delta scienceScienceWater project operations September 14, 2023At the August meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen discussed a recent study on...
