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NOAA: Researchers Head to the Mountains to Improve Weather and Water Forecasting Tools

By: Targeted News Service Dateline: SILVER SPRING, Maryland
Date: October 21, 2021
Rocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryCrested ButteWest Elk MountainsColorado RockiesUpper Colorado River BasinImperial ValleyDenverLos AngelesPopulus tremuloides

Summary

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: As aspen leaves blazed across the Colorado Rockies this fall, NOAA scientists were busy installing a state-of-theart observing network in a remote basin near Crested Butte to study how precipitation forms in the complex,