Journal article
Perspectives on the causes of exceptionally low 2015 snowpack in the western United States
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Augmenting previous papers about the exceptional 2011-15 California drought, we offer new perspectives on the ‘snow drought’ that extended into Oregon in 2014 and Washington in 2015. Over 80% of measurement sites west of 115°W experienced record low snowpack in 2015, and we estimate a return period of 400-1000 years for California’s snowpack under the questionable assumption of stationarity. Hydrologic modeling supports the conclusion that 2015 was the most severe on record by a wide margin. ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Climate Central
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US Environmental Protection Agency
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Department of the Interior Northwest Climate Science Center
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Geophysical Research Letters Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-10
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1944-8007
- Source identifiers:
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652364
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- pubs:652364
- Deposit date:
- 2016-10-13
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- Copyright holder:
- American Geophysical Union
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 American Geophysical Union.All Rights Reserved.
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