Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

Despite the recent prevalence of severe drought, California faces a broadly
underappreciated risk of severe floods. Here, we investigate the physical characteristics of …

Mediterranean climate regimes are particularly susceptible to rapid shifts between drought
and flood—of which, California's rapid transition from record multi-year dryness between …

Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in: Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society Volume 100 Issue 2 (2019) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo …

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow, elongated, synoptic jets of water vapor that play
important roles in the global water cycle and regional weather/hydrology. A technique is …

Daily precipitation in California has been projected to become less frequent even as
precipitation extremes intensify, leading to uncertainty in the overall response to climate …

Abstract In most Mediterranean climate (MedClim) regions around the world, global climate
models (GCMs) consistently project drier futures. In California, however, projections of …

California is a global leader in the agricultural sector and produces more than 400 types of
commodities. The state produces over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of its …