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The future of Sierra Nevada snow
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.
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Climate Change Contributed to Oroville Spillway Collapse, Study Says
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."
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Clouds are disappearing in Southern California, and we’re not totally sure why
"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.
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Siberian bogs may play a crucial role in greenhouse gas
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.
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Dismal Western Snowpack Is a Climate “Warning Sign”, Neil Berg
“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…
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Precipitation whiplash and climate change threaten California’s freshwater
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.
