Sentences with phrase «snow water»

Tree - ring records of precipitation anomalies and of temperature allowed them to reconstruct a 500 - year history of snow water equivalent in the Sierra Nevada.

New information on manual field measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) was obtained in Sodankylä Arctic Space Centre as a result of an exceptionally extensive COST ES1404 — field campaign.

It shows snowpack data from a network of monitoring sites called SNOTEL, as measured in snow water equivalent.

However, while annual peak daily streamflow (APDF) during the spring freshet in the FRB is historically well correlated with basin - averaged, annual maximum snow water equivalent (SWEmax), there are numerous occurrences of anomalously large APDF in below - or near - normal SWEmax years, some of which have resulted in damaging floods in the region.

The five USDA - SNOTEL stations have provided April snow water equivalent measurements since 1943, with four reporting data since 1936.

We have been reading guidebooks to the area, and in one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow water.

3) Daily snow water equivalent and temperature data from 10 USDA Snotel sites.

It will monitor runoff, precipitation, evapotranspiration, snow water storage, soil moisture, groundwater recharge, and sediment yield, thereby reducing our knowledge gaps regarding the effects of forest management on the water cycle.

What is striking, however, is how much Sierra snow water equivalent has lagged overall precipitation.

Long - term climate warming is strongly correlated with declining snow water equivalent and shifts in stream flow throughout the American West and appear to be largely explained by decreased spring accumulation and / or increased spring melt.

Another recent study, for instance — just out last week in Science Advances — documented a general decline in snow water resources across High Mountain Asia, a region spanning from the Hindu Kush region to the Himalayas.

The two reports have now just been published and are called Snow Water Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic Update (SWIPA - update) and Adaptive Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA).

The far northern Cascades as well as the northern Rockies accumulated snow this month and reported snow water equivalent (SWE) values slightly below to slightly above normal.

A combination of unseasonably warm weather and a low snow water equivalent in the mountain snowpack has led to this depiction on the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The simulated data includes snow water equivalent, soil moisture, surface runoff (runoff), subsurface runoff (baseflow), and actual evapotranspiration for a region covering the Peace, upper Columbia, Fraser and Campbell River watersheds.

Estimates of surface snow water equivalent (SWE) in alpine regions with seasonal melts are particularly difficult in areas of high vegetation density, topographic relief and snow accumulations.

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.

Nevertheless, differences (between the 2050s and 1970s) obtained from the two approaches are qualitatively similar for precipitation and temperature, although they are substantially different for snow water equivalent and runoff.

Improving gridded snow water equivalent products in British Columbia, Canada: multi-source data fusion by neural network models.

Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Snow Water Equivalent from MODIS Imagery and Energy Balance Modeling

Alarmists have eventually evolved to crediting warming with producing greater snowfall, because of increased moisture but the snow events in recent years have usually occurred in colder winters with high snow water equivalent ratios in frigid arctic air.

But whatever happens here in February» 92, the Savoie and the Tarentaise have come a long way: from starvation to two - star restaurants, from drinking snow water to swigging champagne and, yes, from the rule of Humbert of the White Hands to the reign of Killy of the Golden Medals.

Satellites do snow extent very easily; there are also satellite - derived data sets on snow water equivalent

2) 3) Daily snow water equivalent and temperature data from 10 USDA Snotel sites, and three snow course sites.

More than one - sixth of the world's population live in glacier - or snowmelt - fed river basins and will be affected by the seasonal shift in streamflow, an increase in the ratio of winter to annual flows, and possibly the reduction in low flows caused by decreased glacier extent or snow water storage (high confidence)[3.4.1, 3.4.3].

For example, Northern Sierra snow water equivalent is currently 145 % of average (vs 202 % of average for overall precipitation).

In terms of event frequency, return periods associated with anomalies in 4 year 1 April snow water equivalent are estimated to have doubled, and possibly quadrupled, due to past warming

As snow accumulates on the pillow it exerts a pressure that is measured and converted to a reading of snow water equivalent and telemetered to two NRCS master stations.

The ratio of snow pack (measured in snow water equivalent) to overall precipitation (SWE / P) is an indicator of a temperature - driven snow - melt signal on western US snow pack.

Each site measures snow water equivalent (SWE) maximum, minimum and average daily temperature (Figure 1).

The village has made an arrangement with the vernal and autumnal moods of the river: the houses and shops know how much the river rises with the spring runoff of the snow water and with the fullness of the autumn rains.

Snow water equivalent (SWE) was variable along the length of the Sierra Nevada, though generally above 75 % of normal.

Snow water equivalent (SWE) reconstruction for the Northern Rockies based on tree - ring measurements (figure from Pederson et al. 2013a).

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The most recent figures from the California Cooperative Snow Surveys show that statewide the snow water equivalent is 193 percent of normal for this time of year.

Snow water equivalent - The equivalent volume / mass of water that would be produced if a particular body of snow or ice was melted.

A detection and attribution analysis on the multidecadal trend in snow water equivalent (SWE) has been conducted in four river basins located in British Columbia (BC).

However, while annual peak daily streamflow (APF) during the spring freshet in the FRB is historically well correlated with basin - averaged, April 1 snow water equivalent (SWE), there are numerous occurrences of anomalously large APF in below - or near - normal SWE years, some of which have resulted in damaging floods in the region.

Accounting for the considerable disagreement among satellite - era observational datasets on the distribution of snow water equivalent, CanESM2 has too much springtime snow cover over the Canadian land mass, reflecting a broader Northern Hemisphere positive bias.

The California Department of Water Resources estimates that «snow water equivalents» for the California snowpack for this time of year are a near record 190 percent for the Central Sierras; June 157 percent for the Northern Sierras; and 186 for the Southern Sierras.

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

Snow water equivalent is projected to decline throughout the Peace and Campbell and at low elevations within the Columbia.

Here is a table listing precipitation versus snow water equivalent totals for California's major hydrological regions, on April 1, 2017: