Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0746-8

Snowmelt runoff is an important source of water for irrigating agricultural crops in high-mountain Asia, Central Asia, western Russia, western US and the southern Andes. Climate change places water resources in these basins at risk, indicating the need to adapt water management.