Sentences with phrase «seasonal snow»

A glacier's mass is the net result of seasonal snow accumulation and seasonal ice loss.

They suggest that dust could be arriving from snow - free land areas in Greenland and nearby in the Arctic that are experiencing earlier melting of seasonal snow cover due to climate change.

Feedback — Water vapor, melting sea ice, less seasonal snow duration in Northern Canada.

The lab also has seasonal snow extent data dating back to 1967 for the winter spring and fall in the Northern Hemisphere, Eurasia, and North American regions.

In the Northern Hemisphere the maximum seasonal snow cover occurs in March.

Seasonal snow duration is decreasing globally, and fitness is lower for winter white animals on snowless backgrounds.

This problem should be worst in late summer (after seasonal snow has melted) and and early fall (latewood density).

During that span, the number of snow - covered days across most of the Swiss Alps declined by 29, and the maximum seasonal snow depth at a number of different measuring stations dropped by 25 percent.

If Pluto were a completely smooth sphere, it would have either a permanent swath of nitrogen ice at the equator or seasonal snow caps at its poles.

«Having seasonal snow forecasts would be a tremendous boon to water managers,» said Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Survey Program in the state's Department of Water Resources.

Specifically, a region would experience less seasonal snow if average winter temperatures were initially above minus 14 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit).

Seasonal snow globes also contain small amounts of ethylene glycol in the liquid.

Judah Cohen, the director of seasonal forecasting at the environmental research firm AER, has written that increasing seasonal snow cover in Siberia may drive extreme winter weather.

It contains the reference: Wiesnet, D.R., C.F. Ropelewski, G.J. Kukla & D.A. Robinson (1987) A discussion of the accuracy of NOAA satellite - derived global seasonal snow cover measurements.

However, possible use of seasonal snow albedo feedback to evaluate snow albedo feedback under climate change conditions is of course dependent upon the realism of the correlation between the two feedbacks suggested by GCMs (Figure 8.16).

Similar conditions in the winter of 2014/2015 saw Boston break its all time seasonal snow record, as well as a record stretch of 43 days with temperatures below 40 ⁰ F.

The report, released at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, clearly links the Arctic heatwave to a record - late start to formation of sea ice this fall, and to record high and low seasonal snow cover extent in the Northern Hemisphere.

Other opportunities exist for seasonal snow shovelers who help keep sidewalks clear for pedestrians.

Systematic evaluation of snow suggests that sub-grid scale heterogeneity is important for simulating observations of seasonal snow cover.

Every winter, less seasonal snow and ice forms in the Arctic — spanning Northern Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland in addition to the Arctic Ocean — meaning that the melting from the preceding summer is not replenished.

The main components of the cryosphere are mountain glaciers and ice caps, floating ice shelves and continental ice sheets, seasonal snow cover on land, frozen ground, sea ice and lake and river ice.

Amid the swirl of seasonal snow and Cabinet - level politics, it seems the government is deeply uninterested in keeping the plant alive by providing the hundreds of millions Kumar is seeking.

Much of the lake water comes from the seasonal snow pack melt.

«[This choice of topic] makes sense and acknowledges the delicate balance of key parts of the cryosphere, such as Arctic sea ice, permafrost, seasonal snow cover, mountain glaciers and the ice sheets, to climate change and the serious impacts that may result.»

The seasonal snow layers are easiest to see in snow pits, writes Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor in the Environment Institute and Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.

This is more than a «nice to have» feature for those living in northern parts of the country, as in some cases all - wheel drive is the one thing getting you to work / school / basketball practice after a seasonal snow storm.

Accelerated melting process of seasonal snow and that of glacier ice from mountain glaciers have been adding to greater volume of water into the sea than normal discharges, it says.

Influence of the seasonal snow cover on the ground thermal regime: an overview.

The seasonal snow layers are easiest to see in snow pits, writes Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor in the Environment Institute and Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.

This has resulted in a more northern storm track (and as we reported in earlier stories (here and here and here), record monthly or seasonal snows).

Even as the planet has continued to warm and the Arctic has melted, seasonal snow cover has increased in Siberia, especially north of high Asian mountain ranges like the Himalayas.

Some components of global OSR (reflection from sea ice and seasonal snow cover) lag behind changes in Ts.

Large Scale Effects of Seasonal Snow Cover, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 166, 291 - 304.

... I think it includes H2O vapor, clouds, seasonal snow and sea ice (I've been over this before but I always find myself questioning whether it does include those last two or not; I'd expect it does).

The seasonal snow cover melts during spring and summer and much of that water flows into rivers which eventually reach the sea.

I conjecture that this sort of snow - albedo effect was part of the drop into the LIA, m especially as seen in England and Western Europe, or anywhere else near the seasonal snow line.

Around 14,000 km2 of ice have been lost from ten floating ice shelves (King, 2003), 87 % of glacier termini have retreated (Cook et al., 2005), and seasonal snow cover has decreased (Fox and Cooper, 1998).