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Our Stolen Future: Exposure is ubiquitous
AAAS annual meeting that persistent organochlorine contaminants that had been deposited in glacial snow are being liberated by melting. The implication of this work is that as ... Canadian lakes." They raise important questions about water supplies for cities that depend upon snow pack accumulations, especially those dependent upon water supplies from high mountains. "For example, cities like ...
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Colorado River Lowdown
March. The snow pack in some southern drainages is promising a flood. However, a warm spring, looking more and more likely, will cut into snow accumulations with snowpack in the ...
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Global Forest Science - Press Release - Drought, fires ahead for much of the West this summer
Instead of predictable slow melt that soaking into the ground and sustaining mountain vegetation, warm temperatures caused the snow to evaporate into thin air. This ...
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STEPPING OUTSIDE THE BOX: Water in Southern California
When there is little or no snow, there is little runoff. The longer the drought, the more vulnerable the regions that are ... mind that the water available to LA from the Mono Lake watershed varies with the snow pack, so that it did little to help the City during drought periods. Further, the development ...
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Pacific Institute Publications
Global warming will change when and where we get snow and rain. If our snow pack melts too quickly or if water that falls as snow turns to rain, we'll see more flooding ...
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Glen Canyon Institute
To ... June 16th, 2005 SNWA releases new drought numbers The water from melting snow on Mount Charleston will not make it to Lake Mead for ... Frommer's. March 16th, 2005 Despite rain, drought may not be over Snow pack off the charts; experts say respite may only be temporary. From The ...
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Mount Washington Observatory – Spring Skiing on Mount Washington
Sarah Curtis, "but visitors need to know that dangerous weather or snow and ice conditions can be found here, too. Tuckerman Ravine, ... kills - stay out of its way! Crevasses When the season's snow pack begins to melt and weaken on Mount Washington's ravine ... those found with variable surface conditions of powder snow, corn snow, wind-packed snow, hard and icy snow, and that the run-outs of typical ...
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Mount Washington Observatory – Surviving Mount Washington
Mount Washington's eastern flank, harbors large quantities of snow and ice. As these melt, water gushes between the headwall and the snow pack, slowly loosening it. Eventually massive chunks of ice, sometimes ... slick refrozen surfaces of older layers. Hikers, climbers and skiers must be alert to the snow conditions on the Presidential Range. Signs warning of avalanche danger should always be heeded. ...
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DayCreek Journal - March 21, 2005
We'll have to wait for the current glacial ice sheet to melt to see if there are any frozen robins under the snow pack. If there are any robins underneath, I would consider this last snow to be the first of three. I doubt that you could consider the 15-inch snow ... another winter returns. How's the house? This last snow was the heaviest snow to fall since the house was built and it was ...
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DayCreek Journal - April 11, 2001
With the quick thawing of the snow pack and heavy rains to boot, our road has suffered quite a bit. ( But, I guess ...
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