Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Since 2011, Suicide Basin—a partly glacierized basin of the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska—has released annual glacier lake outburst floods, called Jökulhlaups by icelanders and glaciologists, which cause flooding and erosion that endanger lives and damage nearby homes and infrastructure.
Living Dangerously Cool with Jökulhlaups (yo-KOOL-lahps) Read More »
A new article published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society aims to improve the accessibility and usability of climate models to climate researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers.
RISA investments helped the Forest Service satisfy a statutory requirement to consider climate impacts on natural resources.
Forest Service uses RISA Team’s downscaled climate model for technical report Read More »
When extreme events like hurricanes or wildfires occur simultaneously or in quick succession, the impacts play off of each other, making the damage associated with one of these events worse than if it had occurred on its own.
Perspective piece explores connected extreme events and approaches for addressing them Read More »
The report aims to create a shared understanding of the physical setting and the latest data, tools, and research underpinning the management of Colorado River water resources.
RISA team presents webinar on Colorado River Basin Climate & Hydrology Report Read More »
Monitoring snowpack conditions in vast mountainous terrain is critical for western water managers.
RISA product estimates snowpack conditions across the Intermountain West Read More »
The study, funded in part by the California-Nevada Climate Applications Program, a CPO RISA team, quantifies the role that four North Pacific circulation patterns have on daily coastal water vapor transport and seasonal precipitation in California.
As in other markets, consumer reports can simplify, summarize, and guide product selection for users.
Climate models project dangerous combinations of heat and humidity by the end of the 21st century. New research says these extremes are already happening.
Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected Read More »
The study demonstrates the value of fostering scientist-stakeholder relationships in catalyzing collaborative public health efforts.