Sentences with phrase «snowpack depth»

This index is based on the annual temperature at Olga, WA, Annual precipitation at Cedar Lake WA and March 15 snowpack depth at Mt. Rainier WA.

Local climate in the North Cascades influences mean snowpack depth and ablation rate, but does not cause significantly different responses to annual climate conditions within specific elevation bands.

Winter snowpack depth peaks around May 10.

In the Northern Cascade Mountains, Washington snowpack depth varies widely because of local topography and consequent microclimates.

Pederson says he's confident his tree - ring results are accurate in part because during a brief period of overlap during the 20th century, the snowpack depth derived from the tree rings and modern observations look like «photocopies» of one another.

Not exact matches

A layer of depth hoar tends to make the snowpack unstable.

If researchers know the steepness of the mountain slope, along with various friction parameters, they can calculate how far an avalanche is likely to flow given any number of different slab depth scenarios — a slab being the layers of snowpack that break off and slide down the mountain.

Depth hoar crystals are formed at the base of a snowpack when water vapor sublimates onto existing snow crystals.

Typically, the snowpack provides up to 30 % of the state's annual freshwater resources and is at a seasonal peak depth in early April.

The most important ramification is that if the distribution and depth of the snowpack is known on June 1, than summer water resources can be estimated for a wide range of basins from a limited number of primary ablation measurement sites.

The depth and breadth of the seasonal snowpack in any given year depends on whether a winter is wet or dry.