Malini Gandhi · Palliative & Supportive Care · 2023
You saw the birds again, you tell me, when I visit you early in the morning.Two golden birds with long necks, you think they may have been cranes.You noticed them last night in the hours before sleep, sitting in the corner behind your IV pole, so still you wondered how long they had been there.You watched them for many minutes, but then they flew up to the table folded over your bed, their wings huge and shimmering and streaked with pink, touching down briefly next to your packets of graham crackers before flying over to the window and disappearing.You point to the window and I walk overblue-purple sky, snow on the sidewalks, slow lanes of traffic.I know they aren't real, you tell me.You are sitting looking up at me, one leg dangling over the edge of the bed, one leg deep under the blankets.We have told you to press a button to call your nurse, each time you see something, to correlate with the EEG on your scalp tracking your brain waves.Reading the nurses' notes, that morning, while eating my bagel and cream cheese: 1:27 pm -pt pushes button to notify RN that he has seen several squirrels 4 pm -pt sees 3 black crows Once, you push your button not because you have seen something, but because your roommate started to make strange noises -When the nurses come in, they find your roommate in status epilepticus, and he is immediately transferred to the ICU.When we thank you profusely, you say, I was so worried about him.Late in the afternoon, we go to stick a needle in your back to sample some of the fluid around your spine.It takes us a long time to find the right place.The sunlight coming in from the window is very bright.You lie with your knees to your chest, the curve of your back facing us.You talk to us about the ocean in the town you grew up in.About the way it came up to the very edge of the buildings.In the evening, I walk past gutters of melting snow.In the laundry room at home, I watch my white coat in the dryer, turning over and over on itself in the darkness.
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Iler, Amy · Figshare · 2019
Data on first day of bare ground (snowmelt date, shown as day of year; 1 Jan = 1) from a long-term snow monitoring plot monitored by billy barr, near the mid-elevation study population described in the paper (The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory). snowmeltT1 refers to the date of melt in year t+1 and snowmeltTm1 refers to the date of melt in year t-1.
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Susan Landgraf · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2015
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Meltwater: from the shallow snowpack which covers the cultivated areas of the prairies represents an important source of moisture for the next growing season. Although antecedant
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D. K. McCool · 2012
In many areas of the world, winter hydrology is an important part of the annual erosion process; in some regions it is the primary cause of erosion. This entry considers winter processes to include a range of conditions from those where the soil freezes and thaws diurnally and is subjected mainly to rainfall to those where the soil remains frozen for several months and precipitation occurs as snow or in other solid form during all or part of the winter season.
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Wang, Guopeng · Figshare · 2024
Snowmelt runoff data monitored on slopes, including information on air temperature, sediment, thaw depth, and flow parameters.
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Riley, J. Paul, Chadwick, Duane G., Eggleston, Keith O. · Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) · 1969
The rapid growth in recent years of a variety of demands upon available water resources has lead to an increasing interest in more fundamental approaches to the science of hydrology. Accompanying this growth has been a need for an increased understanding of the snowmelt process. A completely adequate description of the entire physical process of snowmelt under all conditions is not yet available. The complex interrelated and variable nature of the snowmelt processes that occur simultaneously complicate the problem. A preliminary mathematical model of the snowmelt process has been developed in which processes such as pack settlement rates and energy flow in the pack by means of both conduction and liquid movement are considered. Factors such as an temperature, surface albedo, and degree and direction of slope are also included. A temperature criterion is applied to predict the form of precipitation input (snow or rain) to the model. Equations of the various processes are synthesized into a dynamic model of the total system by means of an electronic analog computer. This computer was utilized primarily because of its ability to (1) perform repetitive operations at very high speeds and (2) solve directly the several time-dependent partial differential equations included in the model. Field data from snow laboraties operated by the Corps of Engineers and highly instrumented watersheds of the Agricultural Research Service are being used to test and verify the model. Inital results have indicated close agreement between observed and computed results. Sensitivity studies have been conducted, and work is continuing to further test and improve the model.
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Wang, Guopeng · Figshare · 2024
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Harvey Leifert · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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The article deals with snowmelt simulation methodology, using hourly air temperature.
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Richard Kattelmann · Annals of Glaciology · 2000
Abstract Snowmelt lysimeters have been used occasionally to provide a physical measurement for testing models of snowpack energy balance and/or meltwater production. Despite the attractiveness of using records of snowpack outflow for comparison with model results, there are many difficulties with using such data for this purpose. The basic problem is poor correspondence between melt produced at the snow surface and water arriving at the base of the snowpack on a unit-area basis. Unenclosed snowmelt lysimeters allow lateral flow of water into and out of the column of snow overlying the collector. The well-known lateral flow of water in a snowpack allows the effective contributing area at the snowpack surface to be different from the surface area of the collector. Data from several years at two research stations in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A., illustrate the great variability of water flux measured by several collectors. However, the mean of accumulated outflow for a melt season from all the collectors tended to be close to the water equivalence of the overlying snowpack at the onset of snowmelt. Therefore, there is some hope that a set of small snowmelt lysimeters or a few large collectors can adequately sample outflow from the base of the snowpack.
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