Disappointing snowpack worries water experts
Published on January 21, 2018 at 01:35PM by Daniel Rothberg, Bloomberg
Between droughts and floods, the last decade has offered water managers in the Southwest a preview of how climate change could impact a supply largely dependent on winter snow. This year's disappointing snowpack has them worried again. "Water and climate change are joined at the hip," said Brad Udall, a researcher at Colorado State University who published a paper earlier this year showing how climate change has reduced flows in the Colorado River. "One of the primary impacts of a warming atmosphere are changes to our water cycle." Snowpack is 50 percent lower than the average at this point in the winter at dozens of basins in the region.
Published on January 21, 2018 at 01:35PM by Daniel Rothberg, Bloomberg
Between droughts and floods, the last decade has offered water managers in the Southwest a preview of how climate change could impact a supply largely dependent on winter snow. This year's disappointing snowpack has them worried again. "Water and climate change are joined at the hip," said Brad Udall, a researcher at Colorado State University who published a paper earlier this year showing how climate change has reduced flows in the Colorado River. "One of the primary impacts of a warming atmosphere are changes to our water cycle." Snowpack is 50 percent lower than the average at this point in the winter at dozens of basins in the region.
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