«(12) Very likely decrease in
snow season length and likely to very likely decrease in snow depth in most of Europe and North America».
Chp 11 pp 850 «
Snow season length and snow depth are very likely to decrease in most of North America except in the northernmost part of Canada where maximum snow depth is likely to increase» Box 11.1, Figure 2.
Temperatures are continuing to rise with consequent increases in evaporation and atmospheric humidity and reductions in snow amount and
snow season length in many regions.
Seasonally, winter has warmed the fastest, causing those in the winter sports industry to consider how to manage future changes in
snow season length, and amount, reliability, and quality of accumulated snowfall.
Not exact matches
The end result: an increase in
length of the
snow - free
season, by about one week per decade from 1975 to 2016.
«The timing of snowmelt and
length of the
snow - free
season significantly impacts weather, the permafrost, and wildlife — in short, the Arctic terrestrial system as a whole,» said Christopher Cox, a scientist with CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA's Physical Sciences Division in Boulder, Colorado.
Every element of the hydrologic cycle, to some degree, is temperature dependent: when it
snows versus when it rains; when it melts, how much evaporates; how much water the plants use; the
length of the growing
seasons.