Sentences with phrase «where snow melt»

Satellite data can help geologists predict major floods up to 11 months in advance in areas where snow melt or groundwater is a significant contributor.

But the world's scientists are finding a treasure trove in areas where the snow melts.

Not exact matches

The study suggests that up until 1997, whenever the ice caps and glaciers melted, the runoff would be filtered through a layer of older snow called the «firn» and trickle down to the ice surface, where it would freeze again, allowing the glaciers and ice caps to grow each winter.

I looked in barns and under bushes, up behind the general store, through the cemetery where artificial flowers poked through the melting snow, over the bridge, back behind the church, up and down hills.

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

In areas like the mid-elevations of the northern Rocky Mountains, where spring temperatures are just under freezing in an average year, «it doesn't take a large increase in temperature to start melting snow earlier in spring,» said Anthony Westerling, a professor of environmental engineering and geography at the University of California, Merced.

«We still don't know exactly where the meltwater came from, but given that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,» Thompson said.

A student equipped with a GPS device tried to detect the outline of the underground fire by looking for areas where the snow was thinner or melted away entirely.

«The pressure on these birds by market gunners and others in the US and Canada was so relentless that the vast flocks that were en route to the Pampas of Argentina, where they were again shot in great numbers, simply melted like snow before the midday sun.

They form in areas that receive little rainfall or snow melt... or where the water evaporates more quickly than it can be replenished.

This can create a feedback loop where more snow melts and temperatures continue to increase even more.

The rise in temperatures would raise the freezing line on the mountain, exposing more ice to melt and reducing the area where nourishing snow falls.

Glaciers form where snow is steadily accumulating, but not melting.

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I hope the snow is melting where you are!

However, while the snow is mostly melted where I am, it's still a little too chilly to go barelegged outside.

I always wear trail shoes for running in the snow, but I need Yaktrax for this unseasonably warm weather where the trails keep melting and refreezing... so slick and nasty!

After waking up bright and early, we headed back down the mountains back to Krakow, where unfortunately all the snow had melted.

And when in the spring the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried.

Make sure there are no gaps where wind, rain or melted snow can get in.

Along comes March, where the snow has melted and there are some better deals to find.

Where the snow began to melt the planes fell away and the grids softened, I was reminded, as I am with Agnes Martin's work, that with structure there is always the poetic that defines it.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

It's a good question, though, how far north the soot gets; the main effect will be in lower latitudes, where snow is melting (and expose dark earth) earlier in the spring.

[Response: The temperature does indeed increase rapidly in areas where the ice / snow has retreated (melted).

And it means more time must be spent on those ice sheets, both in the melt zones and the places where accumulation of snow still dominates — including Swiss Camp, which I visited on the flanks of the ice sheet in 2004:

This left the formation of of nodules of ice where the snow had partially melted and then refroze.

Other pages display maps of individual glaciers, with white regions indicating the «accumulation zone,» where snow falls and adds to the mass, and gray stippled areas showing the «ablation zone,» where melting eats away at the ice.

«That means that reducing emissions of these climate pollutants would provide rapid climate benefits, especially in the Arctic where black carbon pollution accelerates the melting of ice and snow,» said Erika Rosenthal, the Earthjustice attorney who was part of the author team for the UNEP / WMO assessment.

The local government in Yunnan province is considering a tourist ban on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain where glaciers are melting rapidly as well, said Huang Chengde, head of the Guiyang Public Environment Education Centre, who has just returned from a trip to Yunnan.

But where we talk about the overall energy imbalance causing the persistent rise of temperature, the heat that goes into melting snow and ice does defer the temperature rise.

The other concern is the upper Indus, where the snow and glacial melt is really critical in water resource management and flood control in Pakistan,» explained Koike, director, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM).

Kelly D. Alley: The Himalayas is a place of majesty where glaciers hug the world's tallest mountains, snow melt and precipitation combine to form the water of many vibrant river systems, and millennia of cultural and linguistic diversity guide human life ways.

Nonetheless, in much of the United States where spring snow melt does not dominate peak or normal flow, Groisman et al. (2001) show increasing high streamflow related to increasing heavy precipitation.

In «Snow Ste. Marie,» where I grew up, the north side generally saw more melt in the spring for the simple reason that it saw more direct sunshine.

A radar «profile» of the atmosphere from top to bottom shows a very bright, prominent layer at the altitude where falling snow and hail melt — much brighter than atmospheric layers above and below it.

Using 65N maximum solar for glacial melt which is mainly a NH situation doesn't account for the opposite situation where there is increase ocean heat to provide the energy for the snows required to create the glacial mass to begin with,

Smoke from the fires is lofting high into the atmosphere, and is drifting toward the Arctic, where soot can hasten the melting of snow and sea ice.

Looking at a glacier, we got saturated snow low down where all of it melts every yr (saturated facies), partially wet snow (some melts every year, percolation facies) and dry snow hi up, never melts.

As the last of the winter's snow melted, it revealed our inviting back patio, where the sage and oregano was just beginning to poke through in the herb garden on the perimeter, bird feeders begging to be refilled so that the birds could flock in

Yes, it is a more crude assessment, where snow will melt as some function of the thickness and the average high temperature for the day, but the thing is that we have the data for every single point on the map.

The caveat in all of this is that it matters when and where the snow falls as well as when and where it melts.

Ensure snow does not accumulate on your roof or near your foundation, where it could form ice dams and cause melting water to seep inside.

Presumably, this particular woodstove was located in the attic space, because that's where it would need to be in order to melt snow on the roof of a home that otherwise has a fairly well insulated and vented attic space.

It begins as a small stream in the mountains, where it is fed by ice and snow melt in the springtime.

The heat melts the snow on higher roof areas, and the melted water travels to areas where it's below freezing such as the eaves.

I was just in Seattle last week... thinking of primroses and tulips and now am back to Chicago, where happily, the snow is almost melted.

I hope the snow is melting where you are!