This story, by Michael Cast, dives into the complicated management issues on the Big Hole River in southwestern Montana where drought is testing a collaborative approach to water management decades in the making. Drought Continues on Missouri River This Billings Gazette piece covers the state of dro...
A map of the United States showing the difference between the 95th and 5th percentile is included in the supplemental materials (Fig. S9). Larger uncertainty is identified in the central United States, Northwest, coastal Southern California, and California’s southern Central Valley with more than...
This map shows changes in March-June rain since 1979. Credit: UCSB The increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research published inClimate Dynamics. This poses increa...
Synthesizeour knowledge of the ecological impacts of drought, so that we can get a complete picture of what we know and where the gaps are – which will help guide future research; Communicatethis knowledge to resource managers and other stakeholders; Supportdecision-making by ensuring that resourc...
The corresponding site names are indicated on the map. More detailed information of the AmeriFlux sites is summerized in Appendix A. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.) 3.2. Self-Calibrating Palmer ...
How can I monitor drought conditions? One look at a heat map of the drought in Western US states may be enough to send the message home. Numerous websites and organizations keep tabs on the worsening meteorological conditions, including thisdrought monitorfrom drought.gov, a site from the Nati...
Base map is GCS WGS84. Figure produced with ArcGIS 10.5.1 [https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/about-arcgis/overview]. Full size image We selected six headwater stream reaches: Bear (35° 46.1601′ N, 92° 48.0548′ W, second order, 34 sq km drainage), Cave (35° 51.4023′ N, 93...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service published its New Year’s snowpack and water supply observations that included a deep scarlet map of Montana, showing that December’s average temperatures were about 5 degrees warmer statewide than the 30-year average. ...
The heatmap was colored on the basis of the log2-transformed fold-change compared to the control. Change-point models associating the plant phenotypes and microbiome abundance Calibrated abundance of each OTU was fitted against both plant phenotypes, plant area and fresh shoot weight, with the ...
a state of 38 million people, and about four months ago, NASA estimated that California had about a year’s worth of water left–8 months and counting, folks. Here in the Midwest, there is too much water, way too much water. Missouri and other states had record breaking rainfall amount...