Sentences with word «snowcover»

The Ice Worm population did seem to struggle with decreased in snowcover on glaciers from 2003 - 2005, bare ice possibly not being as conducive an environment.
This may be because of the extremely limited growing season (the basin still has snowcover into July), and its relative isolation from seed sources.
The recent forecast for a cool NH spring based on enlarged snowcover is another example.
The main problem is that the two quantities can diverge substantially in the presence of changing seasonal patterns of winter snowcover.
(1) How is the growth of alpine trees affected by the data when snowcover melts?
In Glacier National Park, North Cascades, Helm Glacier and Place Glacier frequent loss of the entire snowcover by the end of the ablation season has become commonplace (WGMS, 2005 The result is in net ablation throughout the accumulation area causing thinning of the glacier in the accumulation zone.
A glacier needs 50 - 70 % of its surface area to be snowcovered event at the end of the summer to be healthy.
Better snowcover in 2007 and 2008 led to greater populations at least at the surface in our surveys.
However, as NOAA advised might be the case, snowcover measurement methodology changes at the turn of this century may be responsible for part of the warm season differences.
Most of the proposed mechanisms linking reduced sea ice and / or increased Eurasian snowcover to extreme winter weather across mid-latitude NH continents involve a pathway through the SPV6, 24,25,32,33,55,56,57.
Both less extensive Arctic sea ice and more extensive fall snowcover are related to a warmer Arctic and colder East Asia18.
Boundary - forcing owing to sea - ice loss and more expansive snowcover can interact constructively with climatological large - scale waves to enhance wave activity and increase energy transfer from the troposphere to the stratosphere, which can trigger a SSW and weaken the SPV.
For our study, the AWSSI is advantageous because it integrates both intensity and duration of temperature, snowfall, and snowcover into one index to measure weather severity across seasons and stations.
Is there any prediction that albedo will decrease in the future due to shrinking ice in the ocean & snowcover on land?
The book is about politics and religion in Turkey, and takes place in a snowcovered village.
By early July snowpack beyond the glacier margins is limited, Snotel sites have lost their snowcover, and yet streamflow is still heavily dependent on snow and ice melt from glaciers (Fountain and Tangborn, 1985; Pelto, 1996).
In the ablation zone, wooden stakes were emplaced in a sequence from areas that lose their snowcover early in the summer to those that lose it late in the summer and not at all.
Confidence in a model is enhanced further if the model is able to capture regional phenomena such as the Asian monsoon, the El Niño — Southern Oscillation and seasonal ice and snowcover, which are important for many impact applications.
In the ablation zone, ablation stakes are emplaced in a sequence from areas that lose their snowcover early in the summer to those that lose it late in the summer and not at all.
From the third highest Feb. snowcover int he last 44 years in 2010 to the third lowest April snowcover in the last 44 years, and the least for North America in 2010.
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