Sentence examples for annual snowpack from inspiring English sources
Annual snowpack will decline on average by half.
California has a Mediterranean climate with wet winters and dry summers, with several mountain ranges that have annual snowpack.
Also, not all glaciers in the park are shrinking rapidly, he says, adding that soot probably affects the accumulation of the annual snowpack more.
This area west of Lake Tahoe in the American River basin has annual snowpack that provides low CWD in a wet year across the area.
Mean age variations are likely controlled by variations in the magnitude of the new fraction, which is positively correlated with annual snowpack water content.
Average annual runoff and recharge are highest in locations with the greatest estimated excess water, generally in locations where annual snowpack is highest, such as in the Sierra Nevada and Trinity Mountains.
Just as melting sea ice is leaving polar bears without a place to hunt, changes to annual mountain snowpack are shrinking the amount of viable wolverine habitat.
Climate change is altering the volume of annual Sierra snowpack that feeds the delta, sustains its fragile ecosystem and provides sufficient water to keep Central Valley crops growing and to quench the thirst of urban areas from the East Bay to Southern California.
The precise conditions that develop during the annual pattern of snowpack development formation have implications for: (i) soil microbiological activity and nutrient transformations; (ii) the capacity of the accumulating snowpack to retain atmospheric derived solutes; (iii) preferential elution and rapid runoff of solutes from the snowpack during periods of thaw; and (iv) leaching of solutes.
Most studies agree that decreases in mean annual flow, reduced snowpack, and more rapid snowmelt runoff are expected [3], [4], [5], [6].
The governor announced what amounts to a dramatic new chapter in the state's response to the drought while attending the annual April 1 measuring of the snowpack here in the Sierra Nevada.
