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Berkeley Lab Science Snapshots April 2019

New Statistical Technique Finds La Nina Years More Favorable for Mountain Snowpack Than El Nino YearsWhen there are multiple factors at play in a situation that is itself changing, such as an El Nino winter in a changing climate, how can scientists figure out what is causing what? Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an advanced statistical method for quantifying and visualizing changes in environmental systems and easily picking out the driving factor.