Blog Post Image: Researchers take new look at future Colorado River flows

Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell at a low point in 2004, when the Colorado River reservoir was only about 40 percent of capacity. A new study with CIRES co-authors evaluates why estimates of the river’s future flow vary, from a 6 percent decrease by 2050 to 45 percent. (Photo by co-author Bradley Udall, who contributed to the new study as director of the CIRES Western Water Assessment, a NOAA-funded program of the University of Colorado Boulder.)

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