Quantifying the Impact of the 2015-2016 El Niño Event on California’s Historic Drought to Improve Water Resource Management

Brittany N Zajic1, Justin Lawrence1, Lauryn Gutowski1, Nick Joseph Rousseau1, John T Reager II2, Mark E Jackson3, Jayme L Laber4 and John L Dumas3, (1)NASA DEVELOP Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NOAA National Weather Service, Oxnard, CA, United States, (4)NOAA National Weather Service, Los Angeles/Oxnard, United States