Snow melting
Assessment and Modeling of Snow Melting Impacts in the French Mediterranean Region - Application to the Var catchment, France
... the snow melting process in catchment hydrological ...by snow melting from upstream of the catchment has significant contribution to the flood discharge recorded at ...the snow ...
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Assembly processes of moss and lichen community with snow melting at the coastal region of the Barton Peninsula, maritime Antarctic
... in snow-free locations in this study with these studies, group 2 domi- nated by crustose lichens which can belong to crustose lichen sub-formation while groups 3 and 5 can belong to fruticose lichen and moss ...
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Analysis of snow accumulation and snow melting in a young mountain spruce and beech stand in the Orlické hory Mts , Czech Republic
... depth, snow water equivalent) are always higher in open space than in spruce stands, namely by 15–50% (Brechtel 1984; Imbeck 1984; Brechtel et ...hand, snow water equivalent in beech stands is the same or ...
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Negative impacts of snow melting on the soil
... Soil erosion as the consequence of snow melting has been researching in many northern European countries (Finland, Norway, north part of Poland and Germany). This phenomenon has been o en mentioning also in ...
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Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation
... From Table 2 it is clear that excluding SMB data from melt zones clearly improves the fit between A06 map and the ob- servations with RMS relative difference of 28% instead of 35%. We further investigate here the ...
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Snow accumulation/melting model (SAMM) for integrated use in regional scale landslide early warning systems
... by snow melting that were not detected by the conventional warning ...where snow is an exceptional phenomenon (and oftentimes is mixed with rain) the use of SAMM provided limited ...
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Importance of snow to global precipitation
... if snow is contiguous with rain in a vertical column, then the rain is formed from the melting ...model-derived snow melting rate on each level in the vertical was multiplied by the model ...
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The impact of landslides in the Umbria region, central Italy
... caused by a single trigger. The percentages of landslides trig- gered by rainfall events (in 1937–1941) and by rapid snow melting (in 1997) that interfered with the transportation net- work were very ...
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Brief communication: Light-absorbing impurities can reduce the density of melting snow
... seasonal snow, snow melting is an important part of the natural annual hydrological ...variability. Snow albedo de- pends primarily on the grain size, wetness, impurities in the near-surface ...
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A Modelling Approach to Assess the Impact of Black Carbon Deposition on Snow Surface Albedo
... in snow are known to reduce the snow albedo and accelerate the glacial melting process, affecting the glacial mass balance of the ...The Snow, Ice and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model was used ...
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Influence of the melting temperature on the measurement of the mass concentration and size distribution of black carbon in snow
... method, snow samples are melted and aerosolized using a ...in snow (Schwarz et ...the melting of snow/ice samples is a common procedure in the three methods above, uncer- tainties due to this ...
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Erosion potential of snow cover in the Czech Republic
... spring snow melting and melting of snow during winter both participate in annual runoff and transport of soil particles from the entire basin (REKOLAINEN, ...by snow melting is ...
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Early warning of snow-caused disasters in pastoral areas on the Tibetan Plateau
... heavy snow in winter or spring often causes death of a large number of livestock due to cold weather and forage ...3228 snow disasters in this region since ...heavy snow disaster occurred in Tongde ...
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Variability of snow density measurements in the Río Esera Valley, Pyrenees Mountains, Spain
... RESUMEN. Determinar con exactitud el espesor y densidad del manto de nieve resulta necesario para conocer su contenido de agua. La medición de la densidad resulta mucho más difícil y requiere más tiempo que la estimación ...
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Now you see it, now you don't: a case study of ephemeral snowpacks and soil moisture response in the Great Basin, USA
... predicting snow ephemerality under varying ...rain– snow transitions limit snow accumulation, (2) snowpack ab- lation from melt and sublimation, and (3) wind scour and re- ...increased snow ...
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Material Flow Analysis of Aluminum Dross and Environmental Assessment for Its Recycling Process
... a melting furnace, (d) the dross generation ratio in a melting furnace, (f) the cooled dross generation ratio in a melting furnace, (i) the high-grade residue generation ratio in the recovery process ...
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Strength of forest-albedo feedback in mid-Holocene climate simulations
... simpler snow albedo parameterisation tend to show higher albedo values under snow conditions than more complex models that explicitly take into account the influence of vegetation on the ...the snow ...
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Case study of spatial and temporal variability of snow cover, grain size, albedo and radiative forcing in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain snowpack derived from imaging spectroscopy
... mdl snow is modeled using the radiative transfer code DISORT (Stamnes et ...optical snow grain size under snowmelt conditions (Painter et ...the snow grain size ...of melting snow would ...
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Short-term velocity variations at three rock glaciers and their relationship with meteorological conditions
... by snow meltwater that filtered in through the active layer, ran off along the per- mafrost table, and, thus, reduced the shear resistance in this zone (Buchli et ...
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Spectral reflectance of solar light from dirty snow: a simple theoretical model and its validation
... various snow pollutants (e.g., soot, dust, algae) influence snow albedo and, therefore, duration of snow ...modify snow spectral reflectance in the visible and near infrared (up to ...
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