Sentences with phrase «peak snowmelt»

Normally, the highpoint for California's 24 major reservoirs and lakes is during the peak snowmelt in late May to early June.

In the Baltics, Sweden and Norway, the peak snowmelt has shifted to later in the year over the 50 - year study period.

Charts showing the timing of floods (green) alongside the peaks in their main drivers — 7 - day maximum rainfall (purple), peak snowmelt (orange) and maximum soil moisture (blue)-- for six regions in Europe from 1960 to 2010.

Not exact matches

The timing of snowmelt also influenced the timing of peak discharge from the North Slope river system and the start of the vegetative growing season, according to the researchers.

You can see this illustrated in the charts below, which show the timing of floods (green lines) as well as the peaks of each of their drivers — rainfall (purple), orange (snowmelt) and soil moisture (blue)-- for six flooding «hotspots» in Europe.

The results of routing are shown in Figure 12.8 - 1 and listed below: Table 12.8 - 1 Oroville Dam PMF with Dynamic Routing (1983) PMP: 28.9 inches Snowmelt: 4.5 inches Peak Inflow: 1,167,000 cfs (Occurs at hour 40) Eight day Inflow Volume: 5,217,300 acre - feet Initial Elevation: 855 feet Maximum Reservoir Elevation: 921.4 feet (Occurs at hour 58 - 59) Peak Outflow 798,000 cfs (Occurs at Hour 58 - 59)

Streams fed by snowmelt are reaching peak spring flows weeks earlier than in the past, and low summer flows weeks before they used to.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.

For instance, earlier snowmelt may not change the total quantity of water available but can lead to earlier runoff that is out of phase with peak water demand in the summer.