Sentences with phrase «snow at these high elevations»

Overall, dippers had higher mercury levels than most other songbirds tested in western North America, which may be due to more atmospheric deposition of mercury in snow at these high elevations.

The vast majority of water that enters Montana comes as rain or snow at higher elevations (MT DNRC 2014a, b, c, d; MT DNRC 2015).

We travel to both high and low elevations, we drive in the dark, and we even try to test in snow at high elevation.

We traveled to both high and low altitudes, we drove in the dark, and this year, for the second time in recent OTY history, we were able test in snow at high elevation.

The rains that are fueling the green - up in the valleys fell as snow at the higher elevations.

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.

Those who do come to the Northwest will be faced with an unpleasant reality, she adds, reciting a list of problems expected to strike the region before the turn of the century: regional temperature increases between 5.5 and 9.1 degrees Fahrenheit; drier summers making the Northwest's forests more susceptible to fire; declining snowpack, as more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow at higher elevations, straining regional water supplies and increasing the risk of flooding downstream.

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At higher elevations in Montana and Idaho, the shift was equally strong, with 75 and 78 percent of stations reporting a decrease in the percentage of precipitation falling as snow at 5,000 to 8,000 feeAt higher elevations in Montana and Idaho, the shift was equally strong, with 75 and 78 percent of stations reporting a decrease in the percentage of precipitation falling as snow at 5,000 to 8,000 feeat 5,000 to 8,000 feet.

Mysterious under - snow lakes pockmarking its edges and deep layers of ice at higher elevations both point to changes that could hasten melt and send water cascading into the ocean, pushing global sea levels ever higher.

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From the Port Hardy turn - off to Holberg the road was mostly in really good shape, 75 % hard - packed and pothole free and there was snow on the side of road at higher elevations.

The climate can range from coast side lands drenched with fog in mild winters and summers to inland reaches baked by hot sunshine on long summer days, which, at higher elevations, can be blanketed with snow in winter.

Thus, some areas of the tropics should experience substantial increases in precipitation, which, at high elevations, will come in the form of snow.

At higher elevations, an increase in winter snow accumulation has partially offset the melt.

The rather striking graphic above demonstrates just how strong this elevational snowpack gradient has been in 2017 — with near - record snow water equivalent comparable to 1983 at the highest elevations and dramatically less accumulation further down the slopes.

Snow couldn't form at as high elevation - ice caps would be lower in elevation.

At high elevations within the Columbia, snow water equivalent is projected to increase with increased winter precipitation.

The Greenland ice sheet accumulates snow in its northernmost area and in the central region at high elevations.

In principle a similar situation could arise at lower latitudes at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains, although most models project a widespread decrease of snow depth there (Kim et al., 2002; Snyder et al., 2003; Leung et al., 2004; see also Box 11.3).

Even though heavy snow may fall at the highest elevations, it's not clear that conditions will be consistently cold enough for substantial snowpack accumulation at middle elevations in California.

The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.