The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

Between 2000 and 2014, annual Colorado River flows averaged 19% below the 1906-1999 average, the worst 15-year drought on record. At least one-sixth to one-half (average at one-third) of this loss is due to unprecedented temperatures (0.9 degrees C above the 1906-1999 average), confirming model-base...

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Main Authors: Udall, Bradley, Overpeck, Jonathan
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Geosci, Inst Environm
Language:en
Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624032
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/624032