____ determines the amount of water available in the snow.
What is Snow water equivalent (SWE)?
This positive feedback drives faster and earlier snowmelt in mountainous regions across the globe.
What is the Snow-Albedo Feedback?
These two mountain ranges surrounding Idaho affect the climate and weather patterns that dictate the snowpack levels.
What are the Rockies and Cascades?
Percent of days in a year snow cover is present.
What is Snow Cover Frequency?
Snowpack is referred to as a _________, storing water during winter and releasing it during summer.
What is a Frozen Reservoir?
The IPCC adopted a greenhouse gas concentration (not emissions) trajectory.
What is a Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP)?
This term refers to any sooty material that is emitted from gas and diesel engines, coal-fired power plants, and other sources that burn fossil fuel.
What is black carbon?
Implementing forest protection plans and not expanding more ski runs would help mitigate climate change because forests are ______.
What are carbon sinks?
When average winter temperatures are greater than or equal to 0o C resulting in an increased chance of rain.
What is At-Risk Snow?
This term refers to the reflectivity of snow. It is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.
What is albedo?
The Sierra Nevada provide ______ % of California's water needs.
What is 30%?
Albedo changes in South Chile were mainly caused by this?
What are wood burning stoves?
Upwards of _____ in annual revenue from tourism fuels Sun Valley.
What is $475 million?
It is estimated that 67% of runoff in the Colorado River watershed goes to ET losses for ______.
What is Agriculture?
This term, similar to Arctic amplification, is used by the IPCC to describe why mountains are warming faster around the world.
What is Elevation Dependent Warming?
The annual revenue generated by the snow industry in the United States is approximately _________.
What is 20 billion dollars?
In 2023, Dust deposition caused the Wasatch snowpack to disappear this many days earlier than if no dust had been deposited on the snow.
What is 17 days?
The winter sports industry in Sun Valley boosts the nationwide economy by more than ____.
What is $4 billion?
Dynamic downscaling results in a ______ Climate Model.
What is Regional?
Changes in snow accumulation and _____ in response to warming climates and unusual weather patterns seen in Sun Valley are due to climate change.
What is melt off dynamics?
Since _____ has Central Sierra Snow Lab (CSSL) maintained one of the world's longest continuous snow depth records.
What is 1879?
Albedo changes from dust deposition have shifted this three weeks earlier, which concerns water resource managers.
What is peak normalized runoff?
Western states have seen an almost 40% decrease in snowfall, equating to nearly ______ less recreation days.
What is 40?
Relationships are applied to future projections.
What is statistical downscaling?
The SI unit for snow density is ____.
What is (kg/m3)?