Climate Change
![For 17,000 years, rain has washed sediments down the slopes of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, depositing them in Lake Ohau.]()
Project Update
A team of scientists finds a year-by-year record of climate history spanning the past 17,000 years at the bottom of a South Island lake.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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Scientific Press Release
New study finds that even with more rain, drought periods as long as several decades are likely to occur in the near future.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
![Floodwaters in the Elbe River reached an all-time high in August 2002, inundating this street in Dresden.]()
Meeting Report
Cross Community Workshop on Past Flood Variability; Grenoble, France, 27–30 June 2016
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
![Researchers look at how flood risk will impact different regions in a warming world.]()
Research Spotlight
As floods become more frequent around the globe, scientists work to pinpoint what puts certain regions at risk.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
![Low water levels in Uvas Reservoir in California, March 2014.]()
News
A weak La Niña is expected to further dry out southwestern and Gulf Coast states.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
![LTAR network site locations in U.S. farm resource regions.]()
Meeting Report
Third Annual Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Meeting; Venus, Florida, 22–26 February 2016
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
![Waves on the Pacific Ocean seen from Maui, Hawaii]()
Project Update
A new climatology tool uses satellite data to map precipitation in a data-sparse region of the Pacific Ocean.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Research Spotlight
Researchers take a retrospective look to see if precipitation and flooding due to El Niño could have been predicted a priori.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
![The 1927 flood on the Lower Mississippi River was one of the most destructive in U.S. history.]()
Research Spotlight
Researchers use high-resolution simulations to reexamine the rainfall events that led to one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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Meeting Report
Hydrology Days 2015; Fort Collins, Colorado, 23–25 March 2015
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