snow runoff

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• Snow filtration — is a system to deal with left over snow in an environmentally friendly way. snow is removed from roads is done to ensure road safety. Roads are salted to cause the snow to melt on the road so that it doesn t freeze after melting. The conventional …   Wikipedia

• Snow hydrology — is the scientific discipline for studying the formation, movement and effects of snow.Snowfall, accumulation and melt are important hydrological processes in watersheds at high altitudes or latitudes. In many western states in USA, snow melt… …   Wikipedia

• Surface runoff — Runoff flowing into a stormwater drain Surface runoff is the water flow that occurs when soil is infiltrated to full capacity and excess water from rain, meltwater, or other sources flows over the land. This is a major component of the water… …   Wikipedia

• Snow — Snowfall redirects here. For other uses, see Snow (disambiguation) or Snowfall (disambiguation). Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. The process of… …   Wikipedia

• snow — snowless, adj. snowlike, adj. /snoh/, n. 1. Meteorol. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the… …   Universalium

• Snow — /snoh/, n. Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow), 1905 80, English novelist and scientist. [1665 75] * * * I Solid form of water that crystallizes in the atmosphere and falls to the Earth, covering about 23% of the Earth s surface either permanently or… …   Universalium

• spring runoff — snow melt causing water levels to rise in streams and rivers …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Unimpaired runoff — Unimpaired runoff, also known as full natural flow , is a hydrology term that is used to describe the natural runoff of a watershed or waterbody that would have occurred prior to anthropogenic or human influences on the watershed. Flow readings… …   Wikipedia

• Urban runoff — ‘’’Urban runoff’’’ is surface runoff of rainwater created by urbanization. In this case, instead of percolating through soil, it runs over impermeable materials such as asphalt, cement, and concrete, and is forced into storm drains. This causes… …   Wikipedia

• Blizzard of 1977 — Snow drifts made travel difficult in parts of New York (February 7, 1977), shown is the city of Buffalo …   Wikipedia

• Water cycle — The Earth s water is always in movement, and the water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Since the water cycle is truly a cycle, there is no… …   Wikipedia