In theory, warmer temperatures across the region should be
decreasing the snow pack — which should also boost the lakes.
I have personally witnessed faster sea level rise in Everglades National Park, Florida and
a decreasing snow pack in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.
Not exact matches
``...
snow pack has
decreased and been observed to melt earlier in the calendar year... the observed changes in the hydrological components... can be explained well by anthropogenic forcing (green house gases and aerosols) alone.»
Even if the Antarctic were warming, most climate scientists expect
snow and ice
pack to increase there, not
decrease.
A 2013 study modeled climate and water system (hydroclimate) changes in the Western US over the next three decades and found that increased temperature is the dominant factor, likely leading to several hydroclimate changes, including:
decreases in spring
snow pack, increases in cold - season days above freezing, and
decreases in the cold - season
snow - to - precipitation ratio.
[1] The mid - to late
snow season is precisely when significant loss of
snow pack is seen at nearly all locations over the past few decades, both through
decreases in
snow accumulation and increases in
snow melt.