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snowpack

/snoh-pak/US // ˈsnoʊˌpæk //UK // (ˈsnəʊˌpæk) //

积雪场,积雪量,雪场,积雪

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.

Examples

  • The major man-made storage reservoirs are less than half full, and the planet’s natural storage—snowpack and soil moisture—are depleted, too.

  • It should be warm enough in the afternoon, though, for a bit of that snowpack to start melting away.

  • Should be warm enough in the afternoon, though, to start seeing a bit of that snowpack melt away.

  • Gow was well-trained in understanding the complicated formula of weather, snowpack conditions and terrain that leads to avalanches.

  • While it’s not universally true, deeper snowpacks tend to be less volatile when it comes to persistent weaknesses.

  • In northeastern Yellowstone, the snowpack has declined 22 percent since 1975.

  • The depth to which it sinks is considered the penetrability of the snowpack by a walking deer.