Resources

AGCI spoke with Brad Udall, Senior Water and Climate Research Scientist/Scholar at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Institute, about aridification as a global change issue and the many ways drying landscapes impact communities and ecosystems.

Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs long strained by overuse now face climate change. Some cities are turning to water restrictions to get back on track.

Why are cities increasingly facing extreme water shortages? Recent research shines a light on the compounding effects of human and climate drivers of shrinking storage, providing foundational knowledge that can inform responses to water stress on lakes and reservoirs.  

AGCI and colleagues have developed a framework for testing innovative, collaborative approaches to doing research, which leverages existing research efforts and aims to yield more interconnected and decision-relevant research outcomes in the Colorado River Headwaters.

New results from the Sublimation of Snow (SOS) Project reveal, for the first time, how much snow is getting lost, and when, exactly, it's disappearing.

Loss of spring snowpack complicates future water supply estimates reveals Sublimation of Snow Project, an AGCI research collaboration conducted in Colorado's Rocky Mountains and captured in a new video.

This report shares the design for a collaborative process for testing innovative approaches to doing research — a test bed, for short — that leverages existing research efforts and articulates strategies for accelerating the science resource managers are seeking to address this need. https://doi.org/10.69925/VCBQ9771

Synopsis of a November 1–3, 2023, hybrid workshop on the state of research and data sets from the Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH); the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign; and the Sublimation of Snow (SOS) study.

Participants in this AGCI-hosted interdisciplinary workshop included experts across the irrigation modeling and observations/data scientific communities, spanning researchers and practitioners working in climate, agriculture, and hydrology.