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The discovery could be of great benefit to meteorologists and hydrologists, the team argues, because direct measurements of snowpack are sparse and difficult to obtain.

The boundaries of snowpack are updated based on the calculated results of change rate of snow depth in the previous phase.

"The recent changes in snowpack are unusual both in duration and in geographic extent, and they are outside the envelope of what can be considered natural changes," adds Philip Mote, an atmospheric scientist at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Mountainous regions seasonally occupied by snowpack are quite sensitive to ongoing changes in climate as the timing of snowmelt is enhanced by warming thus changing the length of the wet season and extending the dry season for all regions downstream that rely on snowpack for public and agricultural use.

Further, avalanche activity may worsen, because the high elevation forests, which formerly held the snowpack, are greatly reduced.  .

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.

The snowpack was unstable.

The snowpack is steadily deflating.

"People would like to think that the snowpack is consistent over a slope," he said.

Statewide in Washington, the snowpack was 29% of a 30-year median as of March 1.

Then you realise the extreme level of the snowpack is not something to get excited about".