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What does climate change mean for the Mono Lake area — and what do those changes mean for LA’s water supply? UCLA IoES Center for Climate Science director Alex Hall…
UCLA IoES Center director Alex Hall talks with The Mono Lake Committee about projected changes in Sierra snowpack and what they mean for the watersheds that feed Mono Lake.
A study led by UCLA IoES Center for Climate Science postdoc Xingying Huang finds that climate change has already contributed to greater wintertime runoff in the Sierra Nevada, and that flood risk climbs in the future. "Our big dams were designed to capture smaller floods than what we expect in the future," said colleague Daniel Swain in Weather Channel. "...these structures were built for a climate that we no longer have."
"If you put lots of concrete and buildings on the surface, you do change the properties of the local microclimate," Daniel Swain said to Mashable.
Total rainfall might not change much averaged across these sharp shifts between very dry and very wet years, but “it doesn’t just wash out in the end,” said Daniel Swain to MIT Technology Review.
“There’s been a growing body of evidence that there have been some long-term declines in Sierra snowpack,” said UCLA climate scientist Neil Berg, one of the report’s authors, noting that…
The Washington Post reports on big changes coming to Sierra snowpack, highlighting recent research by Alex Hall, Daniel Swain, and colleagues at the IoES Center for Climate Science.
“In a place like California, we really need to be thinking about both risks [drought and flood] simultaneously,” said Daniel Swain, IoES post-doctoral scholar and lead author of the study…
“We really need to be thinking seriously about what we’re going to do about these risks,” Daniel Swain, IoES climate scientist told the LA Times about the findings in a…
UCLA research predicts dramatic shifts between extreme dry and extreme wet weather by end of 21st century
The range contains the highest point in the continental United States, Mount Whitney, and is home to both the oldest and largest trees in the world — as well as…
“We’re going to lose a lot of snow to climate change. Equally worrisome, California’s water infrastructure is not resilient enough to make up for the loss.” Alex Hall & Katharine…