Sentences with phrase «spring snow melt»

Although it is unclear how much of the water pool available for photosynthesis is derived from winter versus summer precipitation, research on oxygen isotopes in modern larch suggests that larch rely on spring snow melt and thus integrate the isotopic signal of annual precipitation (Sugimoto et al., 2002).

Spring snow melt timing will have a large effect on moisture availability and the further consideration of whether the slope is faced to North, South, East or West will be important as well as the degree of slope.

With the CiPEHR project on heating the permafrost in Alaska, we now have 3 years of studying the degraded permafrost, without delaying spring snow melt.

On the issue raised by Duster of the flood plains in Russia, It may be that the authors of the paper were suggesting that it was specifically the spring snow melt that caused the floods, rather than steady all year round rainfall.

Spring snow melt can play a role in stream flow.

Hydro generation is 4.6 % of total generation and can only run when there is sufficient water from spring snow melt and rain water.

Nonetheless, in much of the United States where spring snow melt does not dominate peak or normal flow, Groisman et al. (2001) show increasing high streamflow related to increasing heavy precipitation.

On the second day of the media program, we drove it on a loop northeast of Pamplona through fantastically scenic mountain roads snaking along a series of rivers bursting with spring snow melt, top down despite the 38 - degree morning chill, and the F - Type had all the right moves and made all the right sounds.

And when in the spring the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried.

Scientists already know how climate change is impacting the Western United States — higher temperatures have translated to earlier spring snow melts, precipitation is falling more as rain instead of snow at higher elevations and there's reduced runoff and streamflow.

This 3W / m ^ 2 of absorbed radiation that the models currently under represent, chiefly from earlier observed spring snow melts while they allegedly «match» the 20th century climate, will be added as the models project the next 100 years, catching up with the snow melt, an addition of heat comparable to the projected CO2 forcing.

Not exact matches

Hardness can also vary over seasons, as the dissolved minerals can be diluted by a flood of spring rain or amplified by road salts and melting snow.

The long awaited spring thaw is finally underway in Alberta, the snow is melting and the run - off in some places is quite substantial.

all the lies i told myself to keep my fears at bay have melted like the snow and spring has sprung forth to swallow me...

all the lies i told myself to keep my fears at bay have melted like the snow and spring has sprung forth to swallow me whole and happy

Each spring the river, enlarged by the melting snow, turns red because of the silt it carries down to the sea, and this was spoken of as the blood of Adonis.

I remember Spring evoking similar events — new jackets and swampers when we were little (then duck shoes when we were closer to 12), and the mud — everywhere — from the melting snow and the not thawing fast enough ground... I need to try to score some beets & carrots.

Each spring, when the snow melts and the comfort food cravings disappear, I fill my grocery basket with berries.

As the snow melts and New Yorker's begin to dust off their floral - prints and pastel polos, Hotel Chantelle is re-opening its retractable roof offering patrons the perfect setting to take in the sunshine this Spring.

Instead, growers are left hoping for a wet, cold winter that increases the state's snow pack and will provide a steady source of water as it melts over next spring and summer.

It has a fresh, spring - timey flavor that makes me optimistic that the mounds of snow out front will soon melt, revealing the green of my daffodil leaves.

Hope the snow has melted for your spring vibes to continue on!

Spring is an exciting time of year for a lot of reasons — longer days, warmer weather, melting snow and of course, flavorful produce.

Miraculously this week, our last bits of snow have melted, and it was warm enough for our first real spring beach visit.

And that spring snow, oh, it melts so quickly, acting as water for the growing plants and flowers of spring.

Once the snow melts and nature comes back to life in your backyard, it's time to plant your spring blooms.

Spring is all about melting snow and April showers, so add ways to play in and on the water to your activity jar.

The rapidly melting snow banks coupled with the Marimekko event left me hungry for spring!

The snow might be slow to melt, but you can still see signs of spring popping up here and there.

Today is the first day of spring and while the snow will eventually melt, insects will start biting and stinging.

The snow has finally melted and our thoughts are turning to the annual ritual of spring cleaning.

Removing their white winter coat once kept snowshoe hares hidden in spring, but as the snows melt earlier, they are increasingly exposed.

With spring finally here and warmer temperatures just around the corner, snow will slowly melt away, releasing us from the clutches of winter.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

A pulse flow is a surge of water that periodically flows through a river — normally as the result of natural events such as spring storms or melting snow.

This melting snow comes from snowpack, the high elevation reservoir of snow which melts in the spring and summer.

On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow - in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers.

In spring 2016, Boreyko pitched the idea for a thermal absorptive blanket, something that would not only absorb the sun's heat, but could also conduct that heat across the blanket's surface to accelerate snow melting times.

Lengthy series of observation times show that the total amount of snow in the Northern Hemisphere has declined in the spring period and that the melting of the snow has started earlier in the same period.

A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»

In areas like the mid-elevations of the northern Rocky Mountains, where spring temperatures are just under freezing in an average year, «it doesn't take a large increase in temperature to start melting snow earlier in spring,» said Anthony Westerling, a professor of environmental engineering and geography at the University of California, Merced.

That has led to heavier spring snowfalls in many Adélie colonies, which, when the snow melts, inundates Adélie eggs and addles them.

Warmer local temperatures make the snow melt earlier in the spring, shifting flood season up, too.

But because spring now comes sooner, says Daniel Cayan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, the snow is already melting days to weeks earlier — and could start running off uselessly into the sea instead of being available when the state needs it most.

The insect also likes a party: In late winter or early spring, these bugs sometimes form huge colonies, as wide as a yard, with millions of individuals migrating together like a superorganism, devouring the algae that grow on wet, decomposing leaf litter in the melting snow, Schulz explains.

With warmer temperatures, the melting snows will fill the rivers earlier in the spring and will be unavailable for the long, dry summers.

Sweden, for example, sees its biggest floods in the spring when winter snows melt.

Ah, spring is in the air and the snow that I've been suffering through this winter has finally decided to melt... slowly but surely.

At a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Cincinnati, Ken Howard of the University of Toronto warned that the salt is not washed away by spring rains and melting snow as had always been assumed, but accumulates underground.

That thinner layer of snow will be less likely to last into the late spring and early summer, when melting rates are highest.