Hydrologist Bart Nijssen and climatologist John Abatzoglou report on the 2021 water year, and use the Climate Toolbox to tell the story Bart Nijssen and John Abatzoglou Daylight hours are increasing rapidly and the end of winter is in sight. So it is an ideal time to do a quick recap of the water year…
Category: Snowpack & Drought
Irrigated Agriculture, Snowmelt, and Climate Change
Wherein we review a study on projected climate impacts to irrigated agriculture and the CIRCulator’s Managing Editor says goodbye. It is now generally acknowledged that warming tied to human-induced climate change is going to hit our species where it will most assuredly count: in the fields that produce our foods, potentially impacting such tabletop essentials…
Drought and Fish in the Willamette Valley
Study imagines a very bad drought impacting Willamette River fish and strategies that could help reduce those impacts.
Climate Change and Variability in Snowpack
Study looks at how the American West’s disappearing mountain snow is likely to vary from year to year under climate change.
Philip Mote Gets New Job
Oregon State University Professor Philip Mote, the long-time Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute ( OCCRI) and co-lead of the Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium (CIRC), has taken a new position at OSU. In February of this year, Phil began his new appointment as Vice Provost and Dean of Oregon State University’s…
Scarcity Amid Abundance in the Willamette River Basin
Paper examines the counter intuitive findings of the Willamette Water 2100 project.
The Climate CIRCulator 