Land Subsidence Continues in Drought-Stricken California...

New Data Shows Subsidence Continues in Water Year 2021, But Pace Slower than Seen in Previous Droughts [News Release, California Department of Water Resources (CA DWR); February 16, 2022]

https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2022/Feb-22/New-Data-Shows-Subsidence-Continued-in-Water-Year-2021-Pace-Slower-than-Previous-Droughts



Boats on Lake Oroville during the 2021 Drought, © Frank SCHULENBERG; CC BY-SA 4.0, Link


Also...

How Bad is the Western Drought?  Worst in 12 Centuries, Study finds
(Henry FOUNTAIN, New York Times; February 14, 2022)

Selected Research Articles:

Modelling 65 years of Land Subsidence in California's San Joaquin Valley 
(LEES et al., 2021)

Development of spatially varying draw-down functions for land subsidence estimation 
(CHU et al., 2021)

Quantifying atmosphere and ocean origins of North American precipitation variability 
(ZHANG et al., 2021)

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought
(WILLIAMS et al., 2020)

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