Sentence examples for snowmelt of from inspiring English sources

The 1974 film classic, starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston, is loosely based on the success of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in siphoning off most of the Owens River, a stream fed by the snowmelt of the Eastern Sierra, and bringing it to the Los Angeles basin about a century ago.

Taking the accuracy of GCMs' temperature data as the ground, in this paper, we have used directly the HadCM3 temperature data to study its impact on snowmelt of the Brahmaputra river basin.

Based on the results of snowmelt events of 1997, 1998, and 1999, the alfalfa fields yielded more runoff than corn-soybean fields.

Colorado River snowmelt, source of half of Denver's water, plummeted to a quarter of normal flows.

In the spring, they wake and swim up through the trickle of snowmelt to the surface, dividing and photosynthesizing as they go.

The rivers have two flood periods: an irregular, rain-fed rise of minor proportions lasting from November to the end of March and the main snowmelt flood of April and May.

However, OTCs were in place most years before snow melt, and likely influenced timing of snowmelt and initiation of the growth season within the warmed plots.

Though precipitation is considered as the main cause of flood in this region, attention should also be paid to the impact of contribution of snowmelt water to the discharge of the river Brahmaputra.

We haven't fished there since, and now spend the early season upriver casting into rushing pools chilled by snowmelt, instead of warmed by turbines.

Overall this study underlines the large inter-annual variation in spring snowmelt responses of managed boreal catchments, which may have hydrological and biochemical implications for downstream locations.

First, we executed a week-long dilution culture experiment following ice-off, when production of autochthonous DOM was at a minimum and organic matter was derived primarily from snowmelt inputs of terrigenous material.