Sentences with phrase «snow melt over»

Based on the understanding of both the physical processes that control key climate feedbacks (see Section 8.6.3), and also the origin of inter-model differences in the simulation of feedbacks (see Section 8.6.2), the following climate characteristics appear to be particularly important: (i) for the water vapour and lapse rate feedbacks, the response of upper - tropospheric RH and lapse rate to interannual or decadal changes in climate; (ii) for cloud feedbacks, the response of boundary - layer clouds and anvil clouds to a change in surface or atmospheric conditions and the change in cloud radiative properties associated with a change in extratropical synoptic weather systems; (iii) for snow albedo feedbacks, the relationship between surface air temperature and snow melt over northern land areas during spring and (iv) for sea ice feedbacks, the simulation of sea ice thickness.

We had a lot of our snow melt over the last few days.

In Norway's Svalbard archipelago, which lies midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, snows melted over the weekend as temperatures rose above freezing.

Not exact matches

Hardness can also vary over seasons, as the dissolved minerals can be diluted by a flood of spring rain or amplified by road salts and melting snow.

Over the hills, the vales, the cities, rage the red flames fierce: The Heavens melted from north to south: and Urizen, who sat Above all heavens, in thunders wrap'd, emerg'd his leprous head From out his holy shrine, his tears in deluge piteous Falling into the deep sublime: flag'd with grey - brow'd snows And thunderous visages, his jealous wings wav'd over the deep; Weeping in dismal howling woe, he dark descended, howling Around the smitten bands, clothed in tears & trembling, shudd» ring cOver the hills, the vales, the cities, rage the red flames fierce: The Heavens melted from north to south: and Urizen, who sat Above all heavens, in thunders wrap'd, emerg'd his leprous head From out his holy shrine, his tears in deluge piteous Falling into the deep sublime: flag'd with grey - brow'd snows And thunderous visages, his jealous wings wav'd over the deep; Weeping in dismal howling woe, he dark descended, howling Around the smitten bands, clothed in tears & trembling, shudd» ring cover the deep; Weeping in dismal howling woe, he dark descended, howling Around the smitten bands, clothed in tears & trembling, shudd» ring cold.

Instead, growers are left hoping for a wet, cold winter that increases the state's snow pack and will provide a steady source of water as it melts over next spring and summer.

So the snow is over, melted and the new month has begun.

I looked in barns and under bushes, up behind the general store, through the cemetery where artificial flowers poked through the melting snow, over the bridge, back behind the church, up and down hills.

Its durable construction also prevents the Melt Mat from degrading over time, a problem observed with other passive methods of snow removal, such as spreading large amounts of soot particles over snowbanks for a similar effect.

2016 experienced the earliest melt, the latest onset of snow in autumn, and the longest snow - free season in 115 years of record - keeping — about 45 percent longer than the average over the previous four decades.

The new study by Stefanie Lutz, postdoc at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and at the University of Leeds, shows a 13 per cent reduction of the albedo over the course of one melting season caused by red - pigmented snow algal blooms.

When draped over snow, the Melt Mat increases melting time by threefold, all without any effort or energy input.

After the snow cover melts for the season, other species of alga take over.

The ground froze early, the first snow stayed on the ground without melting, the winter was more severe than usual, and there seemed to be «a constant fog over all Europe, and [a] great part of North America.»

«We still don't know exactly where the meltwater came from, but given that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,» Thompson said.

Although civil unrest is far less likely there, tension is indeed growing between political leaders in northern and southern California over who gets the increasingly scarce water from rivers, underground aquifers and snow melt, all of which are declining.

The ice sheet is made up of annual layers of snow that never melted and became compacted into ice over thousands of years.

Whilst it's natural to start with air temperatures, a more thorough examination should be as inclusive as possible; snow cover, ice melt, air temperatures over land and sea, even the sea temperatures themselves.

With higher precipitation, portions of this snow may not melt during the summer and so glacial ice can form at lower altitudes and more southerly latitudes, reducing the temperatures over land by increased albedo as noted above.

The 2012 melt season, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, experienced melting even at mountainous heights over a mile into the sky atop Greenland.

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulations over the glaciers, but would also expose over 90 % of the current glaciered area to melt in the warmer months.»

I especially can't wait to style this top over white denim skinnies but will definitely need to wait for the snow to melt for good before then!

The snow is melting, the trees are in bloom, and you're so over that winter coat.

Now, most of the snow is melted and the left over snow is dirty.

The wolf boy, the wild child, the strange feral creature appeared early one spring as the iced - over streams started to crack and the blown snow on the steppes was melting.

On a rain - drenched April evening, so cold the frogs were silent, so gray we could hardly see our barn, my husband drove our rusting Subaru over mud roads sodden with melted snow.

Especially if you're on the top floor, a bad winter could cause issues with the roof that either cause it to collapse or to leak all over your personal property when the snow starts to melt.

The hike through the valley leads you over rocks, streams, and rivers created by the runoff of snow and the melting of ice from both the Hooker Glacier and those glaciers hanging off Mount Sefton.

The ColdTech system will also remove and paint on snow during the game, if it's snowing over a building or vehicle the snow will start to pile up but if it falls near any type of fire the snow will melt.

Initiated in the 1990s and spanning four continents, Reality Hacking consists of over 300 interventions to date, including such varied works as RH No. 320 (Snow Monsters)(2015), a constellation of twelve marble snowmen in various stages of melting that occupied the plaza outside of the Flatiron Building in New York City; RH No. 202 (2002 — 2003), a composition performed by the Ensemble for New Music Zurich based on a recording the artist made of a glass shelf filled with crystal objects crashing down a flight of stairs; RH No. 200 (2002), an artificial doughnut - shaped island built at the delta of a river in Switzerland using rocks and earth from the construction of a nearby tunnel; and RH No. 244 (2007), a snowman installed at the southernmost point of the African continent.

If I assume surface melting of 1M / year over the interior, say 500e3 KM ** 2 due to warmer climate & darker ice surface (old wet ice versus clean dry snow) that would contribute 1.4 mm / year to sea levels.

«As the Arctic sea - ice cover continues to disappear and the snow cover melts ever earlier over vast regions of Eurasia and North America, it is expected that large - scale circulation patterns throughout the northern hemisphere will become increasingly influenced by Arctic Amplification.»

Why Himalaya's glacier melted so much, because it is cumulated by summer snow, now summer is over 0 c in the Himalaya, so the glacier could not cumulated and melted away.

Flocks as large as 300 miles long and 1 mile wide would take over the sky, engulfing light from the sun for days in a thundering storm of beating wings and dung like «melting flakes of snow,» according to John James Audubon.

In May 2007, a team of scientists from NASA and the University of Colorado reported satellite data showing widespread snow - melt on the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet over an area the size of California.

This area has now become the cradle of Atlantic depressions, which over the past (and coming) weeks formed the one after the other, coursing for North Europe, bringing much rain, leading to a very mild month of January, melting snows and high river discharges and flooding in parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

That Greenland gets over 1m of snow fall each year (w.e.) means it is growing upwards at the same time as it's outer fringes of ice are melting back a bit.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

The 2009 State of the Climate Report of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us that climate change is real because of rising surface air temperatures since 1880 over land and the ocean, ocean acidification, sea level rise, glaciers melting, rising specific humidity, ocean heat content increasing, sea ice retreating, glaciers diminishing, Northern Hemisphere snow cover decreasing, and so many other lines of evidence.

In northeastern Europe (1), the timing of flooding has shifted from late March to February over the past five decades as winter snow melts earlier in spring, sending huge amounts of water into rivers.

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

This was nevertheless an exception: over the long term, it can be seen that total snowfall in the northern hemisphere has decreased and the snow has been melting earlier.

This type of pollution occurs when rainwater or snow melt flows over the landscape and picks up pollutants from farmlands and city streets before entering rivers.

(1) there is established scientific concern over warming of the climate system based upon evidence from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level;

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulation over the glaciers, but would also expose 90 % of the current glacier area to melt in the warmer months,» he says.

[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.

People all over the world rely on melting snow to replenish their water supplies, and the earlier melt (and sometimes smaller accumulation) reduces the water availability for these people, threatening their way of life.

Over the past few decades, warming temperatures have been linked to changes in the percentage of precipitation falling as rain or snow, and snow melt anomalies showing a trend towards earlier and faster stream flow.

Stormwater (or polluted runoff) is rain or melting snow that flows over the ground.

Firstly, we are seeing a considerable increase in the reduction of spring snow - cover i.e. an earlier melt - out over high northern latitudes.