Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Abstract The Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement
(IMERG) produces the latest generation of satellite precipitation estimates and has been …

In many mountainous regions, winter precipitation accumulates as snow that melts in the
spring and summer, which provides water to one billion people globally. Climate warming …

Snowpack stores cold-season precipitation to meet warm-season water demand. Climate
change threatens to disturb this balance by altering the fraction of precipitation falling as …

Drought is a complex and multivariate phenomenon influenced by diverse physical and
biological processes. Such complexity precludes simplistic explanations of cause and effect …

Destructive and costly flooding can occur when warm storm systems deposit substantial rain
on extensive snowcover,,,,–, as observed in February 2017 with the Oroville Dam crisis in …

Quantification of snow cover changes and related phenology in global mountain areas has
not been consistently addressed, despite the well-known importance of the snow in this …

Mountain snowpack serves as an immense natural water reservoir, and knowledge of snow
conditions helps predict seasonal water availability and offers critical early warning of …