Sentences with phrase «about snowpack»
On the other hand, though, it's a bit discouraging that one of the strongest El Nino events in recorded history brought about a snowpack which, while much improved over recent extremely low snow years, was still below average.
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More accurate information about snowpack can help these managers and hydrologists plan for how to fill reservoirs, how much water they might have available during the dry season and how dry the soils might be during fire season.
Not exact matches
Seems like just a few short weeks ago that we were placing wagers around the office about if the historic Boston Winter of 2015 snowpack would recede by Mother's Day or the Fourth of July.
The Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides about 65 percent of the state's water, has been declining since 1950, and a quarter of the snow is projected to disappear by 2050.
When the researchers took density of snow into account, they found that ice shelves lost about five times more ice by submarine melting than they gained from new surface snowpack.
Abysmal snowpack in the Rockies would put about one - quarter the normal amount of water into the Colorado River that season.
The snowpack melted about 50 days early because dust put massive stress on high mountain vegetation and lowland farms and fields.
«Water managers and state and federal agencies can make decisions about whether cloud seeding is a viable option to add additional water to supplies from snowpack in the mountains.»
The systems have been used to study floods, landslides, snowpacks and just about anything else under the sun that can enhance understanding of the natural processes happening around us.
Right now, the researchers are able to develop a monthly average for snowpack about 10 days after the end of the month.
And the GPS data is about 50 percent more accurate than one hydrologic model used to estimate snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and roughly on par with another one, Argus said.
A new study shows that the climate simulated by a numerical climate model can depend surprisingly much of what is assumed about the snow grain shapes when computing the reflection of solar radiation by the snowpack.
Hall's research team found that 2016 — 17 winter snowpack was about 20 percent smaller than it would have been without climate change that has already happened.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU)-- The rainy season for the Bay Area has ended but there are new concerns about the massive snowpack that currently covers the Sierras and whether it poses a hazard for some California residents.
The lack of snowpack in 2014 is all about ENSO and resulting jet stream patterns, something well known for years.»
How about the Sierra Nevada snowpack?
In an average year California get 194 maf (million acre feet) of rainfall / snowpack and only about 82 maf is captured within the labyrinth of water systems: of which 8.8 maf goes to cities, 34.3 maf to agriculture and 39.4 maf to the environment.
Well, it nearly * tripled * from mid February to late March, yet never reached above about 65 % of average at any point this season (and recent record warmth has already triggered melting; the snowpack is already back down to 55 % of average for the date).
The snowpack that accumulates during winter storms provides about 70 - 90 % of water supply for the region.
«We went after snowpack in the western U.S. because it provides about 60 to 80 percent of the water input in high elevation mountains.»
I am going to talk about how changes with local temperature, pikas, whitebark park pines, and snowpack, may be an indication global climate change is impacting Crater Lake.»
And in California, which gets about 75 to 80 percent of its freshwater from the Sierra Nevada snowpack, that combination of rising temperatures and decreasing precipitation, particularly in the winter and early spring, could prove especially dangerous.
In this episode of Deeply Talks, Ian Evans, Water Deeply's community editor, speaks with Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor and John Fleck, director of water resources at the University of New Mexico, about the status of this year's snowpack, what it can tell us about the water year to come and how that fits with long - term climate change trends.
John Day, Oregon, is concerned about diminishing water resources for its community from less snowpack.
By March 2015, about one - third of the ground - based monitoring sites in the Sierra Nevada recorded the lowest snowpack ever measured.
In the Cascades, where cool - season temperatures have risen 2.5 ° F (about 1.4 ° C) over the past 40 to 70 years, snowpack has declined by an average of 25 percent — and up to 60 percent in some areas.3, 4,5
A new study shows that the climate simulated by a numerical climate model can depend surprisingly much of what is assumed about the snow grain shapes when computing the reflection of solar radiation by the snowpack.