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Potential Relief for the Colorado River’s Near Future
Precipitation could boost the iconic river’s flow in the next couple of decades despite the deleterious effects of warming temperatures due to climate change.
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Average is Awesome: California Happy With Latest Snowpack Survey
After years of swinging extremes, state snowpack is at rare average of 110%, setting up good water savings account for year ahead.
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Improving Seasonal Water Predictions Using a Machine-Learning River Forecast System
A WWAO collaboration has published a new paper on how to use next-generation satellite snow data to improve seasonal water supply forecasts using machine learning.
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California Mountains Face Weather Whiplash
Last month’s massive snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada followed a dry start to winter. Such extremes in precipitation may become the norm.
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Field-Scale Crop Water Consumption Points to Potential Water Savings in Agriculture
Using remote-sensing data and machine learning, a team from NASA and beyond finds that switching to lower-intensity crops can reduce water consumption in California’s Central Valley by 93%, but this requires adopting uncommon crop types.
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Snowstorm Coats the Rockies
A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.
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World Water Day: Water for Peace
This year’s theme, “Water for Peace,” encourages the world to focus not only on the conflicts, but also on how water can be at the center of peacebuilding.
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US, Germany Partnering on Mission to Track Earth’s Water Movement
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Continuity mission will extend a decades-long record of following shifting water masses using gravity measurements.
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What’s Worse Than a Flood? A Debris Flow
While flood flows are dominated by water, debris flows are a slurry of a lot of things, including boulders.
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California Water Department Completes First Phase of Innovative Groundwater Mapping Program
State-of-the-art helicopter-based technology and local coordination improve management of our underground water supply.