Sentence examples for snowpack under from inspiring English sources
All the things forecasters are talking about in avalanche reports — naturally occurring cracking, collapsing, "whoompfing" and the avalanching of the snowpack under the weight of skiers or riders — were evident during a recent backcountry ski tour above the town of Independence, east of Aspen.
Artificially generated excess ice which appears to have been created from runoff, water pooling and refreezing, aspect shading from buildings, and snowpack buried under fill, are prevalent.
The contrast between the slow infiltration rates into frozen soil and the relatively fast rates of snowmelt delivery to the soil surface resulted in water accumulation in small depressions under the snowpack.
In all cases the loggers were placed on the soil surface under the snowpack and recorded temperature at intervals of 15 minutes.
Moreover, activities as well as abundances of nitrifiers and denitrifiers were significantly higher under a weak or absent snowpack during winter, and mostly related to soil water content and soil surface temperature according to our models.
At the same time, as snowpack melts earlier in the year, trees are coming under late-summer water stress that weakens their defenses against beetles.
The snowpack was unstable.
The snowpack is steadily deflating.
Annual snowpack will decline on average by half.
Wolverines appear to be dependent on areas of deep snowpack.
