<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;"><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">Public Release: 6-Aug-2018</font></span></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">Rain-on-snow flood risk to increase in many mountain regions of the western US, Canada</font></span></h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER</font></span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western US and Canada due to climate change.</font></span></p></div></a><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt></a><dd class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><em class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nature Climate Change</font></em></a><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0236-4" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0236-4</a></dd></dl><div class="">Full release <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoca-rfr080218.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><div style="font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">βThe changes experienced by the biosphere over the past century ... have raised concerns about the possibility of rapid shifts from green to desert states.β </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Richard Sole'. Scaling laws in the drier. Nature 13 September 2007</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class="">"What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change," said co-author Jay Famiglietti. <br class=""><br class="">"We see a distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter -- those are the high latitudes and the tropics -- and the dry areas in between getting dryer.β<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-102" class="">https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-102</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.β<br class=""><br class="">Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018<br class=""><br class="">Published online: 27 April 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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