Sierra snowpack could drop significantly by end of century
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 09:40
in Mathematics & Economics
A future warmer world will almost certainly feature a decline in fresh water from the Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack. Now a new study that analyzed the headwater regions of California's 10 major reservoirs, representing nearly half of the state's surface storage, found they could see on average a 79 percent drop in peak snowpack water volume by 2100.