A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards

A AghaKouchak, LS Huning, M Sadegh, Y Qin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Growth in satellite observations and modelling capabilities has transformed drought
monitoring, offering near-real-time information. However, current monitoring efforts focus on …

Anthropogenic drought: Definition, challenges, and opportunities

A AghaKouchak, A Mirchi, K Madani, G Di Baldassarre… - 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Precipitation regime change in Western North America: the role of atmospheric rivers

A Gershunov, T Shulgina, RES Clemesha, K Guirguis… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
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 …

Exploring drought‐to‐flood interactions and dynamics: A global case review

MH Barendrecht, A Matanó, H Mendoza… - Wiley …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study synthesizes the current understanding of the hydrological, impact, and adaptation
processes underlying drought‐to‐flood events (ie, consecutive drought and flood events) …

Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective

SC Herring, MP Hoerling, JP Kossin… - Bulletin of the …, 2015‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective Special Supplement to the
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 96, No. 12, December 2015 From A Climate …

Global snow drought hot spots and characteristics

LS Huning, A AghaKouchak - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Snow plays a fundamental role in global water resources, climate, and biogeochemical
processes; however, no global snow drought assessments currently exist. Changes in the …

Relative humidity and solar radiation exacerbate snow drought risk in the headstreams of the Tarim River

Z Wang, S Huang, Z Mu, G Leng, W Duan, H Ling… - Atmospheric …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Snow drought is commonly defined as the phenomenon of abnormally low snow snowpack
caused by below-normal precipitation and/or above-normal temperatures for a period of …

Projected changes in interannual variability of peak snowpack amount and timing in the Western United States

AM Marshall, JT Abatzoglou, TE Link… - Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interannual variability of mountain snowpack has important consequences for ecological
and socioeconomic systems, yet changes in variability have not been widely examined …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term trend of snow water equivalent in the Italian Alps

N Colombo, M Valt, E Romano, F Salerno, D Godone… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Snow stores a significant amount of water in mountain regions. The decrease of water
storage in the snowpack can have relevant impacts on water supply for mountain and …