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The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, established by the legislature in 2007, focuses on climate change and its effects on natural and human systems.
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· 9d
Register for the 2025 Pacific Northwest Water Summit
Email from NOAA/NIDIS Register today Pacific Northwest DEWS Join Us: Pacific Northwest Water Summit November 4, 2025 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. In Person at Boise State University or Limited Virtual The Idah
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· Aug 28
It’s been 20 years since forecasters issued the Katrina ‘doomsday’ statement
The statement, which preceded the first mandatory evacuation order for the city of New Orleans before Katrina made landfall, warned of “human suffering incredible by modern standards.”
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· Aug 27
Explosive Emigrant fire reburns forest, forms heat-fueled cloud
The Emigrant Fire, now the largest in Lane County this year, has scorched about 3,500 acres. Watch a time lapse of the pyrocumulus cloud it formed over the Willamette National Forest.
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· Aug 26
Reminder! Join us August 25 for the Pacific Northwest Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar
Email from Get the latest conditions and outlooks Pacific Northwest DEWS National Integrated Drought Information System Drought.gov Pacific Northwest Drought Early Warning System August Drought & Cl
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· Aug 21
Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
Wildfires are consistently more severe in private industrial forests than public ones. In this paper, we identify the drivers of this pattern. Namely, we show that fire severity is elevated in dense,...
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· Aug 20
Join us August 25 for the Pacific Northwest Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar
Email from Get the latest conditions and outlooks Pacific Northwest DEWS National Integrated Drought Information System Drought.gov Pacific Northwest Drought Early Warning System August Drought & Cl
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· Aug 16
Mark Raleigh
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· Aug 16
Snow monitoring at strategic locations improves water supply forecasting more than basin-wide mapping
Communications Earth & Environment - Adding snowpack measurements at strategic locations outperforms spatially complete surveys for water supply prediction, outlining a cost-effective strategy...
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· Jul 18
Trump admin to proceed with groundbreaking flash flood risk database, reversing course after media reports | CNN
The Trump administration has changed course and is moving ahead with work to develop a new database that would provide Americans with precise estimates of their flash flood risk in a warming world.
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