Sentences with phrase «snowpack accumulation»

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.

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

The study examined what is likely to be seen in terms of precipitation, snowpack accumulation and water runoff over the next century, versus the same data for the years from 1976 and 2005.

Not exact matches

They also used a physically based computer model of the hydrologic cycle, which takes daily weather observations and computes the snow accumulation, melting, and runoff to estimate the total snowpack in the western U.S.

Extrapolation from site to site for accumulation can be accomplished, but only when the sites are at similar elevations and the sites have a baseline history documenting the specific development of snowpack..

From 1000 - 1900 m the USDA Snotel network provides an excellent network of snowpack and temperature data recorders in the North Cascades, but no sites are found on or adjacent to the highest accumulation areas, which are glaciers.

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.

A glacier is divided into an ablation zone where all accumulated snow is lost from the winter and an accumulation zone where snowpack is retained to the end of the summer.

Boulder Glacier has retreated 500 m since 1987, yet even in the years with the lowest retained snowpack there is still an accumulation zone at the top of the glacier.

Crevasses also provide an opportunity to assess accumulation as a natural incision that provides a vertical view of snowpack thickness.