Sentences with phrase «where snowpack»

If the annual equilibrium line, that is the elevation where snowpack remains at the end of the summer, rises above the mountain top this will lead to glacier loss.

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.

This is a particular worry for areas like the Alps, where snowpack is melting ever - earlier as unseasonably warm temperatures begin earlier in the spring and creep deeper into the fall.

Thus, the fire season in Montana typically extends from late June through October at lower elevations, with shorter seasons at higher elevations where snowpack can persist into July (Keane et al. forthcoming).

In western states where snowpack is critical, we found decreases in the percent of winter precipitation falling as snow at elevations between sea level and 5,000 feet.

Not exact matches

«That part is not new, but they point out a few other occasions in the last millennium where there has been low snowpack in the West were also periods that were unusually warm.

Also like California, Stevens said, climate change modeling predicts a future of hotter summers, accentuated droughts, and shrinking winter snowpacks in Turkey's Taurus Mountains, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers arise.

At the end of March drought remained entrenched in the western United States, where mountain snowpack was record low for many locations in the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

NASA airborne science instruments such as the JPL - managed Airborne Snow Observatory and the SnowEx field campaign in the western United States, which includes JPL participation, seek to better understand and better measure how much water is held in snow cover, a critical fact for this region where one in six people rely on snowpack for water.

Also, the link between more precipitation and El Niño really only holds for Southern California, while it is the northern half of the state where the main reservoirs, supplied by mountain snowpack, are situated.

I live in California where we rely on the winter snowpack for summer water.

Fires in the West, droughts in the Southwest, melting snowpack in the Northwest, flooding and heavy rainfall in the Northeast, the much stronger coastal storms and hurricanes that we've seen in the Gulf: we've gotten to the point where we can all point to something that's happening and say: «This is what climate change is doing to our region.»

James Taylor of the Heartland Institute penned a Forbes article where he claimed that Christy's findings «refute frequent assertions by global warming alarmists that global warming is adversely affecting Sierra Nevada snowfall and snowpack.»

No matter the probability or intensity of USGS ARkStorm it would have to drop precipitation (not snowpack which melts slower) where the watersheds are for the 10 dams in Northern California shown on the map at the following link (the 2 dams in Southern California only receive water from the Northern Cal dams and should not be considered): Link

In the Cascades, where cool - season temperatures have risen 2.5 ° F (about 1.4 ° C) over the past 40 to 70 years, snowpack has declined by an average of 25 percent — and up to 60 percent in some areas.3, 4,5

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.