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Study on Impact of Climate Change on Snowpack

Study on Impact of Climate Change on Snowpack

An international team of scientists, including one from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has found that up to 20 percent loss in the annual maximum amount of water contained in the Western United States‘ mountain snowpack in the last three decades is due to human influence.

Peak runoff in streams and rivers of the Western U.S. is strongly influenced by melting of accumulated…