Climate Change Planning Guidance focused on Nevada
This publication helps to fill gaps in climate change information and guidance resources focused on Nevada, which are limited.
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NIDIS, CNAP, and Partners Issue Special Edition Drought Status Update for the Western United States
This Special Edition Drought Status Update was issued to help answer the question, “What do the recent storms mean for drought in the West?”
California-Nevada Climate Applications Program (CNAP), a NOAA CAP/RISA team, researcher co-authors wildfire burn severity and biomass emissions publication
Anthony Leroy Westerling with CNAP, a CAP/RISA team, co-authors publication titled, “Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfire burn severity and biomass burning-induced emissions in California.”
West RISA researcher co-authors new publications on simulations of wildfire burn severity maps
Based on California wildfires, this research team develops empirical models to improve burn severity and high-severity patch area maps with vegetation regimes to create efficient wildfire burn severity maps that will improve land use management by policy makers.
The California Nevada Applications Program (CNAP), a NOAA RISA Team, supports the 2021 Nevada Water Resource Public Survey
The survey, released in late 2021, will assist the state in incorporating public concerns and priorities into their water-related planning.
New study, funded by the California-Nevada Applications Program (CNAP), a NOAA RISA team, explores climate change impact on future atmospheric river flood damages in the western U.S.
The study, published in the Journal of Scientific Reports, reveals that annual expected atmospheric river-related flood damages in the western United States could increase significantly, raising important questions for policymakers aiming to target efforts to more effectively adapt to climate change.
Researchers from the California-Nevada Climate Applications Program, a NOAA RISA team, contribute to new article on winter wet–dry weather patterns as evidence for increasing wildfire hazard in CA
The study reveals that weather patterns are changing in a way that enhances wildfire hazard in California, while the frequency of weather patterns linked to historical floods is not diminishing. These changes exhibit the rising hazards of weather extremes in California’s present and future.
NIDIS and CNAP to Host Drought Update and Wildfire Outlook Webinar for California and the Southwest
Wildfire season across the Southwestern U.S. has begun, with multiple destructive fires burning in Arizona and New Mexico. This June 2nd webinar will provide timely information on the current drought status and outlook and wildland fire potential outlook.
NIDIS-Funded Project Finds That Evaporative Demand Increase Across Lower 48 Means Less Water Supplies, Drier Vegetation, and Higher Fire Risk
Increased evaporative demand will be an essential consideration for land and water management planning going forward.
New study elucidates the role of atmospheric rivers in future precipitation regime change in the West
New research identifies atmospheric rivers as the dominant driver of extreme precipitation and changes in the precipitation regime in future climate along the US West coast.