Dana Ariel Lapides – The Conversation

Following historic drought in 2021, reservoir levels dropped down in the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, which gets its waters from the melting snowpack from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. (pxhere.com)

January 2, 2023

Scientists dig deep and find a way to accurately predict snowmelt after droughts

Dana Ariel Lapides, University of California, Berkeley; Daniella Rempe, The University of Texas at Austin; David Dralle, University of California, Berkeley, and Jesse Hahm, Simon Fraser University

Unprecedented droughts leave the subsurface drier than usual, affecting water supply in subsequent years.

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June 24, 2022

Our flood predictions are getting worse as the climate changes. We have to understand how hills shape floods

Sally Thompson, The University of Western Australia; Anneliese Sytsma, Colorado School of Mines; Dana Ariel Lapides, Simon Fraser University, and Mary H. Nichols

A warmer atmosphere can hold more water – and that makes floods harder to predict. To help, we improved one common tool used to predict floods.

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