Sentences with phrase «snowpack during»

On Lemon Creek Glacier, density was measured in a continuous profile through the snowpack during the measurement program at three locations.

Neil Berg, associate director of UCLA's Center for Climate Science, was lead author of the study on snowpack during drought.

Not exact matches

California had the highest number of positive snowpack trends since 1955, but lingering drought during the past decade erased most of those gains and snowpack declines still dominated;

Snowpack in the northern Rocky Mountains has shrunk at an unusually rapid pace during the past 30 years, according to a new study.

Surprisingly, cloudy, gray and humid winter days can actually cause the snowpack to warm faster, increasing the likelihood of melt during winter months when the snowpack should be growing, the authors report.

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.

The study also looked at the amount of snowpack runoff during the warmer season, compared to what has been seen in the past.

More accurate information about snowpack can help these managers and hydrologists plan for how to fill reservoirs, how much water they might have available during the dry season and how dry the soils might be during fire season.

The snow readings are important during this time of the year, as several locations depend on the meltwater from that snowpack for drinking water and irrigation through the drier and hotter summer months.

Much of the precipitation that fell across the state during the season was rain and not snow, with much below average snowpack at the end of the season.

Much below average snowfall and snowpack was observed across the West, which exacerbated the drought and wildfire season during summer and autumn.

Warming temperatures over the next century, especially during spring, are likely to reduce snowpack at mid and low elevations.

Large interannual variability in snowpack can be nested within Pacific Decadal Oscillation (and Pacific North American) driven patterns (e.g., see the high snow years of 1996 and 1997 that occurred during a 25 - year period of below average snowpack).

The snow readings are important during this time of the year, as several locations depend on the meltwater from that snowpack for drinking

Given that the long - term trend in early spring snowpack is down, Climate Central recently examined how the type of precipitation is changing during the winter months nationwide.

Rising temperatures will reduce snowpack, shift historical patterns of streamflow in Montana, and likely result in additional stress on Montana's water supply, particularly during summer and early fall.

For Immediate Release: October 21st, 2016 Northwest off to a snowy start for the upcoming ski season According to the Open Snow website «Multiple storms hit the west coast and Pacific Northwest during the first half of October, which has resulted in a healthy snowpack for this time of the year».

According to the Open Snow website «Multiple storms hit the west coast and Pacific Northwest during the first half of October, which has resulted in a healthy snowpack for this time of the year».

A rise in precipitation and a fall in snowpack can only be accounted for by greater melting or rainfall during the winter.

The snowpack that accumulates during winter storms provides about 70 - 90 % of water supply for the region.

Freshly fallen snow reflects up to 84 percent of incoming sunlight, but during the warm season the reflectivity declines as the ice grains within the snowpack change shape and size.

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 found that, on average, temperatures during winter and spring had increased during the study period and the amount of the snow - water equivalent (or the water in the snowpack) decreased by 25 percent.

Snowpack levels stood at or near record lows during the winters of 2013, 2014 and 2015.

For example, snowpack is expected to continue to decrease over the coming decades, reducing surface water supplies in the Western US [5] In such a situation, groundwater becomes particularly critical, providing a buffer during dry years that helps protect water supplies and ensures a reliable food supply [6].

In particular, groundwater use increases during droughts when there is less water available in lakes, rivers, and mountain snowpack.

For example, the projected increase in extremely low precipitation and extremely high temperature during spring and autumn has substantial implications for snowpack water storage, wildfire risk, and terrestrial ecosystems (47).

Further, California's seasonal snowpack (which resides almost entirely in the Sierra Nevada Mountains) provides a critical source of runoff during the low - precipitation spring and summer months.

The lack of snowfall and snowpack for the winter of 2011/2012 and the following spring was a precursor to the large drought episode that impacted two - thirds of the nation during the following summer and autumn.

Snowpack over the central Rockies and southern Alberta, for example, dropped two to 50 millimeters over the mountains during late spring and early winter.