Protecting the snow leopard and enhancing farmers' livelihoods : a pilot insurance scheme in Baltistan
Discussion of a pilot insurance plan to save the snow leopard in Balistan, a district in the Pakistani-controlled sector of Jammu and Kashmir State, while protecting farmers from predatory losses to their livestock, tipically goats. Each farmer pays
a premium based on head of livestock. In addition, trekking expeditions focusing on the snow leopard contribute to the fund. The insurance fund is jointly managed by a village committee and Project Snow Leopard (PSL) staff. - (SLD)
Climatology of surface cyclone trajectory and intensity for heavy-snow events at three midwestern stations
Atmospheric circulation ; Climatology ; Cyclogenesis ; Cyclone ; Midwest ; Snow ; Statistics ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America
This paper investigates the fundamental characteristics of surface cyclones producing heavy snowfall at 3 Midwestern stations, Minneapolis, Madison, and Indianapolis, for the period from 1966 to 1996. Heavy-snow cyclone track location (latitude
A spreadsheet-based (Microsoft Excel) point surface energy balance model for glacier and snow melt studies
Alps (The) ; Energy balance ; Glacial ablation ; Glacier ; Model ; Mountain ; Snow ; Software ; Switzerland
the net shortwave and longwave radiation fluxes, the turbulent sensible and latent heat fluxes and the surface melt rate at a point on a melting ice or snow surface, from hourly inputs of incoming shortwave radiation, vapour pressure, air temperature
Active layer ; Arctic Region ; Canada ; Cold area ; Energy balance ; Hydrology ; Meltwater ; Northwest Territories ; Permafrost ; Snow cover ; Watershed
This paper presents a synopsis of 2 decades of research contribution to Arctic hydrology carried out at the McMaster basin. Discussions will focus on 2 topics of special significance to the Arctic region, being snow and permafrost hydrology.
Climate ; Climatic trend ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Iowa ; Kansas ; Missouri ; Nebraska ; Snow ; Snow cover ; Temperature ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; Winter
edge of a persistent snow cover during winter. The most anomalous feature for the decadal maps is the distinct southerly location of the C/D boundary for the recent decade of the 1970s. This study does not provide evidence of a trend toward wintertime
Comparing the characteristics of rockfall talus and snow avalanche landforms in an Alpine environment using a new methodological approach : Massif des Ecrins, French Alps
Alpes du Sud ; Avalanche ; France ; Grain size distribution ; Methodology ; Mountain ; Rockfall ; Slope deposit ; Slope dynamics ; Slope gradient ; Snow
Alberta ; Atmosphere ; Canada ; Cloud ; Manitoba ; Model ; Nova Scotia ; Numerical model ; Ontario ; Ozone ; Radiation ; Snow
This paper presents a general model, which only requires total atmospheric ozone depth, hourly cloud cover, and snow depth. It is a suitable model for calculating ultraviolet radiation in the 290 to 325 nm waveband for southern Canadian conditions
In this paper the AA. explain the characteristics of chemical constituents in a 10 m summer ice core and a 1.7 m winter snow/ice core which were recovered at Austre Brøggerbreen, Spitsbergen, in September 1994 and in March 1995, respectively
. The chemical effect of meltwater percolation through snow/ice is examined.
Canada ; Classification ; Cold area ; El Niño ; Evaporation ; Precipitation ; Seasonal variation ; Snow ; Subarctic zone ; Synoptic climatology ; Thematic mapping ; Vegetation dynamics ; Weather type ; Years 1990-99
An objective hybrid classification of daily surface weather maps for Churchill, Manitoba, was used to determine the dominant synoptic conditions during the snowmelt and snow-free periods for the Canadian central subarctic. This classification
and permanent snow bank ice are discussed, and specific examples are given from 3 different environments (ice-cored moraines, ice-cored deltas and icings). The impacts of thermokarst and retrogressive thaw flow erosion on the preservation of ground ice are also
Air temperature ; Albedo ; Climatic data ; Cold area ; Experimental station ; Greenland ; Meteorology ; Polar region ; Radiation ; Snow cover ; Soil temperature ; Wind speed