CIRES is home to insightful and innovative scientists – we knew that already. But many of them turn out to be incredible photographers as well. Please check out our photostream on Flickr, especially the Front Range Floods photoset. THANK YOU to CIRES colleagues who shared their work. … Read More
Did you miss it? If you could not attend the CIRES Western Water Assessment panel discussion on flood, weather, climate today, here it is: http://cirescolorado.adobeconnect.com/p751cdslj7x/ Our apologies to those who couldn’t get video feed during the panel. We are working to understand the glitch — some people saw it, others did not, creating understandable frustration.… Read More
The CIRES Western Water Assessment has released a preliminary assessment of September 2013’s severe flooding, including information on weather, water, climate and risk. More: http://wwa.colorado.edu/resources/front-range-floods … Read More
Expert panel, Wednesday, 11 am MT: Extreme weather and connections to climate change: How unusual were September’s floods? A panel of science experts will convene at the University of Colorado Boulder Wednesday, to discuss weather and climate related to the recent devastating floods. Panelists will discuss the unusual weather conditions that caused the floods, the… Read More
by Jeff Lukas, Western Water Assessment, CIRES In early September, a favorable atmospheric circulation pattern sent copious subtropical moisture streaming towards the Front Range. As that pattern persisted for three days, areas of heavy rainfall fired up repeatedly over the Front Range foothills, leading to 24-hour amounts over 5 inches in some locations and 3-day… Read More
An astonishing map from our colleagues at NOAA’s National Weather Service, Boulder/Denver office: 7-day precipitation totals. More: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/?n=preciptotals_multiday… Read More
CIRES is posting images of the floods on our Flickr site, here. If you would like your photographs added, please contact CIRES multimedia specialist David Oonk, david.oonk@colorado.edu.… Read More
A post from Bryon Lawrence, CIRES scientist at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, bryon.lawrence@noaa.gov: I sometimes like to draw an analogy between weather and cooking. There are recipes for significant hydrometerological events, and for the Northern Front Range and the nearby plains of northeastern Colorado, the ingredients for a major rain and flood event came together… Read More
Cathy Smith, a CIRES researcher at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, has started a flood resource page here. Some of the information is for scientific audiences (eg, time series maps of precipitable water anomalies); some is accessible for general audiences (eg, a link to UCAR/NCAR’s great story, “Inside the Colorado Deluge”); and she even has… Read More
Journalists, please contact Katy Human, CIRES Communications Director, for information about reaching these scientists. kathleen.human@colorado.edu, 303-735-0196 Kristen Averyt Director of the Western Water Assessment, a program of NOAA and CIRES Dr. Averyt can speak to drought, drought-flood cycles, and the impact of the recent rains on Colorado’s drought situation. Brian Ebel CIRES Visiting Fellow, CU-Boulder… Read More