Root-zone storage and snow cover effects: A catchment study on the dynamic behaviour of the root-zone moisture capacity related to changing snow cover patterns

Extreme weather events seem to happen more often nowadays. One of these extreme events was the California Drought between 2012 and 2016. The socioeconomic and environmental impacts of this drought were enormous:<br/>thousands square kilometers of agricultural land fallowed, thousands of lost jobs, salinization problems and forest fires. As a...