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New Snow Drought Page

NIDIS DEWS launches a new climate resource in response to the snow drought affecting much of the US West.

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"Executive Summary for March 9th: In this weekly roundup, we analyze key water developments around the West, including the latest snowpack information, new regulations on indirect potable reuse and a study finding a century of snow declines across the West." News Deeply, Water Deeply, March 9th, 2018

"Questions about dams posed by West’s shrinking snowpack" Mountain Town News, March 8, 2018

"Snow Study Shows Dwindling Reserves on 9 of 10 Surveyed Peaks Findings: Average Snowpack Has Declined 15 to 30 Percent Since 1915" The Centralia Chronicle, March 8th, 2018

"Study: Snowpack drops over decades" Associated Press, March 4th, 2018

"Snowpack declines in the western U.S. are comparable to all of the water stored the West’s largest reservoir" Discover Magazine Blogs, March 3rd, 2018.

"Study: Snowpack has declined dramatically across US West" WRAL.COM, March 2nd, 2018.

"Snowpack levels show dramatic decline in western states, U.S." ScienceDaily, March 2nd, 2018.

CLIMATE ASSESSMENTS & Project Reports

The Climate CIRCulator feeds our team's larger efforts to inform our fellow Pacific Northwest residents about the science, impacts, and hazards associated with climate change. For those readers wanting to take a deeper dive, below are a series of reports we have worked on.

Gilles, Nathan G., Josh Foster, Meghan M. Dalton, Philip W. Mote, David E. Rupp, John Stevenson, Katherine A. Serafin, Janan Evans-Wilent, Peter Ruggiero, John T. Abatzoglou, Timothy J. Sheehan, Katherine C. Hegewisch, Denise H. Lach, Jessica Andrepont, and Kathie D. Dello. Responding to Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest United States: the Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium, September 2010–August 2017 Phase 1 Final Report. the Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC), a NOAA RISA team. Corvallis, Oregon: College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 2017.

Dalton, Meghan M., Kathie D. Dello, Linnia Hawkins, Philip W. Mote, and David E. Rupp. The Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute. Corvallis, Oregon: College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 2017. (Download the PDF)

Dalton, Meghan M., Philip W. Mote, Amy K. Snover, eds. Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013. Print ISBN: 9781610914284. E-Book ISBN: 9781610915120. (Download the PDF)

Mote, Philip W., Amy K. Snover, Susan Capalbo, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Patty Glick, Jeremy Littell, Richard Raymondi, and Spencer Reeder. "Chapter 21: Northwest." In Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, edited by Jerry M. Melillo, Terese (TC) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, 487-513. Washington, D.C.: US Global Change Research Program, 2014. (Website) (Download the PDF)

Melillo, Jerry M., Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Global Change Research Program. ISBN: 9780160924026. (Website) (Download the PDF)

Dello, Kathie D., Philip W. Mote, editors. Oregon Climate Change Assessment Report, December 2010. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 2010. (Download the PDF)

About the CIRCulator

The Climate CIRCulator is a monthly newsletter covering climate science and the Northwest, written by scientists and communicators at the Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC), the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI), and the Oregon Climate Service (OCS). CIRC is a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate adaptation effort the Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments program. A state-funded organization, OCCRI is tasked with informing Oregon residents and lawmakers about the impacts of climate change. OCS is Oregon’s state climate office. CIRC, OCCRI, and OCS are headquartered at Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences in Corvallis, Oregon.

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The Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC) is a climate-science-to-climate-action team funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A mix of scientists from disciplines as varied as atmospheric and social science, CIRC is a proud member of NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments(RISA) program, a national leader in climate science and adaptation.

About OCCRI

The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) was established under House Bill 3543 in the 2007 session of the Oregon State Legislature. Housed within the Department of Higher Education, OCCRI is a network of over 150 researchers at Oregon State University (OSU), the University of Oregon, Portland State University, Southern Oregon University, and affiliated federal and state labs. OCCRI is administered by OSU and resides in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

OCCRI hosts a number of major projects and centers, including the Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC), the Oregon State Climate Office, and the Oregon Climate Service (OCS).

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