blog post An Epic Snowpack May Test Water Management in the San Joaquin Valley By Jeffrey Mount Mar 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 ... Nothing improves our understanding of water like a “stress test”—and it's starting to look like the San Joaquin Valley will face one this ...
Report Priorities for California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Sarah Bardeen, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Nov 14, 2022 Nov 16, 2022 ... The snowpack—that once-reliable annual source of water—is diminishing as temperatures rise. Water withdrawals during multiyear droughts are ...
Report Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 Climate warming will reduce the amount of water stored in snowpack—an important source of cold water for many native species. Additional changes include a ...
blog post Commentary: Four Strategies for Managing California’s Crucial Watershed By Ellen Hanak, Greg Gartrell May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022 ... This is drying out vegetation and soils, shrinking the snowpack—a key part of seasonal water storage—and reducing available runoff.
blog post What’s Really Important? Putting Recent Water News into Perspective By Sarah Bardeen Dec 8, 2021 Dec 8, 2021 ... We need a strategy to use uncaptured flood flows to bring groundwater basins into balance. And as the climate warms and the snowpack shrinks, ...
blog post Drought, Water Supply Are Top Environmental Concerns in California By Rachel Lawler, Annabelle Rosser, Gokce Sencan Aug 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 ... The warming climate is exacerbating California's drought conditions and threatening the snowpack. The current drought is leading to stressed ...
blog post Cultivating Optimism as Drought Cripples the Colorado River By Sarah Bardeen Jul 19, 2021 Jul 19, 2021 ... JF: We watch the snowpack, because that usually tells us how much water we'll ... It was a black box: precipitation falls in the mountains, ...
blog post California’s Latest Drought in 4 Charts By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Jeffrey Mount, Michael Dettinger May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 ... In both regions, snowpack is better than it was in 2014 and 2015—but not enough to provide significant drought relief.
Fact Sheet Droughts in California By Jeffrey Mount, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Gokce Sencan Apr 13, 2021 Warming is also decreasing the proportion of precipitation that falls as snow. Snowpack is an important part of the state's water storage system, accounting for ...
blog post California’s 21st Century Megadrought By Jeffrey Mount, Michael Dettinger Jun 23, 2020 Jun 23, 2020 ... ... often associated with reduced mountain snowpack. These periods are chronically dry, with less frequent wet years and drier dry years.