Sentence examples for snowpack from inspiring English sources
noun
An accumulation of packed snow, usually the seasonal amount.
The problem can be traced to shortages of rain and snowpack, which lead to shallower rivers and reservoirs, which result in less pressure to speed the water along.
In the mountains the snowpack thins, meltwater now brown reluctant drops.
Already the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, the main water storage for the Delta, is shrinking.
The snowpack of the Sierra Nevada, California's most reliable water-storage system, is shrinking and may stop yielding predictable run-off in the spring and start producing sporadic and unusable, not to mention disastrous, floods.
And less snow falls: the water content of the Sierra Nevada mountains' snowpack, which acts as a natural water-storage system until the spring thaw, was just 5% of its April 1st average last month.
The measure follows four years of severe drought and its lowest ever recorded winter snowpack.
The storage of heavy winter precipitation as snowpack is one example.
In summer the snowpack becomes thinner, and drainage paths within the snow are more defined, so that meltwater and liquid precipitation are transmitted through the glacier rapidly.
An unusually heavy winter snowpack causes high-albedo snow to persist longer over the glacier in summer; thus, less meltwater is produced.
Because a winter snowpack is a dependable feature of the taiga, several mammals display obvious adaptations to it.
One of the aqueduct's southern branches terminates at Castaic Lake on the northern fringes of Los Angeles.Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley subsequently extended 40 miles further north to Mono Lake to tap additional run-off from the Eastern Sierra snowpack normally provides about a quarter of the city's needs.
