Center for Climate Science

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Precipitation whiplash and climate change threaten California’s freshwater

The Washington Post reports on big changes coming to Sierra snowpack, highlighting recent research by Alex Hall, Daniel Swain, and colleagues at the IoES Center for Climate Science.

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Climate change could leave Californians with ‘weather whiplash’

“In a place like California, we really need to be thinking about both risks [drought and flood] simultaneously,” said Daniel Swain, IoES post-doctoral scholar and lead author of the study…

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Climate change will make California’s drought-flood cycle more volatile, study finds

“We really need to be thinking seriously about what we’re going to do about these risks,” Daniel Swain, IoES climate scientist told the LA Times about the findings in a…

Study forecasts a severe climate future for California

UCLA research predicts dramatic shifts between extreme dry and extreme wet weather by end of 21st century

New report on climate change in the Sierra Nevada shows need for human adaptation

The range contains the highest point in the continental United States, Mount Whitney, and is home to both the oldest and largest trees in the world — as well as…

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The Sierra Nevada snowpack will be 64% smaller by the end of this century. We need to prepare now

“We’re going to lose a lot of snow to climate change. Equally worrisome, California’s water infrastructure is not resilient enough to make up for the loss.” Alex Hall & Katharine…