A new study finds that including Himalayan topography and land-atmosphere interactions improves climate models.
Hydroclimatology
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Shifting Winds Write Their History on a New Zealand Lake Bed
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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Tracking Trends in U.S. Flood Risk
As floods become more frequent around the globe, scientists work to pinpoint what puts certain regions at risk.
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U.S. Winter Outlook Sees No Drought Relief
A weak La Niña is expected to further dry out southwestern and Gulf Coast states.
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Preparing to Face the Future of Agriculture in the United States
Third Annual Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Meeting; Venus, Florida, 22–26 February 2016
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Closing the Pacific Rainfall Data Void
A new climatology tool uses satellite data to map precipitation in a data-sparse region of the Pacific Ocean.
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Could We Have Predicted What El Niño Would Bring?
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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Water Resources in a Changing Climate
Hydrology Days 2015; Fort Collins, Colorado, 23–25 March 2015
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How Can We Better Understand Low River Flows as Climate Changes?
When rivers run low, they threaten ecosystems, economies, and the communities who depend on them. Scientists need to determine how climate change alters this process, but to do so, they'll have to abandon a long-held assumption.
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What Climate Information Is Most Useful for Predicting Floods?
Basing forecasts on data that preserve variations over space yield more reliable predictions than using standard numerical measures of climatic cycles' intensity.