Characterizing the extreme 2015 snowpack deficit in the Sierra Nevada (USA) and the implications for drought recovery

Abstract Analysis of the Sierra Nevada (USA) snowpack using a new spatially distributed snow reanalysis data set, in combination with longer term in situ data, indicates that water year 2015 was a truly extreme (dry) year. The range‐wide peak snow volume was characterized by a return period of over...

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Main Authors: Steven A. Margulis, Gonzalo Cortés, Manuela Girotto, Laurie S. Huning, Dongyue Li, Michael Durand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-06-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068520
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