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Land subsidence caused by groundwater extraction in California's San Joaquin Valley has been occurring for many decades. In situ monitoring of subsidence in this large geographic area has historically been limited. The California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) sought the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's assistance for satellite‐ and aircraft‐based synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) monitoring of subsidence during the 2012–2016 drought. InSAR was successful in cost‐effectively providing first‐ever synoptic measurement of land subsidence over the entire San Joaquin Valley. The purpose of the monitoring was screening or hotspot detection of impact areas affecting critical water infrastructure. Long‐term cumulative land subsidence has substantially reduced the conveyance capacity of sections of major valley canals and the monitoring revealed that subsidence rates observed during the drought ranked with maximum historically observed rates, highlighting risks to water infrastructure. InSAR also identified new and rapidly emerging hotspots adjacent to critical water infrastructure. The success of the InSAR monitoring for drought response resulted in CDWR's decision to subsequently provide InSAR data as technical assistance to local agencies required to comply with recent state groundwater management legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dynamical forecasting talks included IRI's calibrated subseasonal forecasts based on the Subseasonal Experiment (SubX; [8]) and calibrated seasonal forecasts based on the North American Multi-Model Experiment (NMME; [7]), which provide seamless prediction capabilities starting from 1 day to 6 months in advance. The low prediction skill of winter precipitation is attributed largely to model shortcomings in simulating the ENSO-independent, anomalous Pacific circulation, which is an important driver of year-to-year California precipitation variability. For drought preparedness, state and local water managers would like to rely on skillful forecasts on time scales that span the spectrum between weather forecasts and climate predictions. Keywords: Forecasting; Seasonal variability; Subseasonal variability; Communications/decision making; Decision support; Water resources EN Forecasting Seasonal variability Subseasonal variability Communications/decision making Decision support Water resources E2168 E2175 8 11/14/22 20221001 NES 221001 Virtual Workshop on Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Forecasting for Water Management in the W... What: Scientists and stakeholders came together to discuss forecast priorities for western U.S. water resource management and to review existing and emerging methodologies that can improve prediction of precipitation, circulation regimes, and atmospheric rivers at lead times of weeks to months. [Extracted from the article]

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