Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River
by Brad Udall | June 14, 2017 9:56 AM
Endnotes:
- Brad Udall: https://theconversation.com/profiles/brad-udall-362925
- Jonathan Overpeck: https://theconversation.com/profiles/jonathan-overpeck-104286
- University of Arizona,: http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-arizona-959
- The Conversation,: https://theconversation.com/us
- See the entire list of contributing faculty and their articles here.: https://theconversation.com/institutions/colorado-state-university
- Lake Mead: https://www.nps.gov/lake/index.htm
- Lake Powell: https://www.nps.gov/glca/index.htm
- they had lost enough water: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/us/colorado-river-drought-forces-a-painful-reckoning-for-states.html
- legally apportioned share: https://wrrc.arizona.edu/publications/arroyo-newsletter/sharing-colorado-river-water-history-public-policy-and-colorado-river
- ongoing drought: https://www.doi.gov/water/owdi.cr.drought/en/
- our published research: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016WR019638/abstract
- make all droughts more serious: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/503350a
- [Image]: https://cdn.theconversation.com/files/172561/area14mp/file-20170606-3686-171odx1.png
- draws more water: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2905.1
- the Rio Grande: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073253
- robust scientific findings based on well-tested physics: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/climate/factsheets/howreliable.pdf
- 4 percent per degree Fahrenheit increase: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00228.1
- threatened the structural stability of Glen Canyon Dam: http://www.hcn.org/external_files/40years/blog/WaterPolicyChaosArticle.pdf
- the recent collapse at California’s Oroville Dam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam_crisis
- The Colorado River Basin and other areas around the globe at essentially the same latitudes: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf
- These deserts are projected to stretch polewards: http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/10081/2013/
- Megadroughts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/todays-drought-in-the-west-is-nothing-compared-to-what-may-be-coming/2015/02/12/0041646a-b2d9-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html
- tree-ring studies: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL029988
- to a point where the odds of one occurring are better than 80 percent: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400082
- it also seems likely that we will have decades with less flow than normal: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/megadroughts-arizona-new-mexico/503531/
- a stunning 8.8°F above normal: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201703
- low costs for producing solar power: https://thinkprogress.org/arizona-utility-game-changing-solar-deal-8e7c0bcb093a
- The Conversation: http://theconversation.com
- original article: https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280
Source URL: https://source.colostate.edu/climate-change-shrinking-colorado-river/
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