Blog: Defining the ’snow deluge’ and projecting its future
For California’s Sierra Nevada, the winter of 2022-2023 delivered an epic snowpack that broke many records and busted a severe drought. … Both hazardous and helpful, the banner year was also of interest to snow scientists, such as Adrienne Marshall, an assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. Marshall was lead author of a paper published in April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that introduces the term “snow deluge” to describe extreme snow years like the one California weathered.
Related watershed and water supply articles:
- San Francisco Chronicle: How California reservoir levels compare with past four decades
- Eureka Times-Standard: With temperatures rising around the area, the waters remain cold in Humboldt County