“We’ve supercharged our drying,” said John Abatzoglou, a climatologist at UC Merced. Over the past few ... this thirst as evaporative demand. The map above shows how anomalous the demand ...

University of California, Merced (UC Merced or UCM) opened in 2005 as the first American research university of the 21st Century. Its campus, which sits northeast of the city of Merced in San Joaquin ...