RE: Some thoughts on recurrence intervals

David Yeamans, CST-7, 5-8832, dryeamans@lanl.gov (dryeamans@lanl.gov")
Wed, 01 Oct 1997 10:45:27 -0600


>Having said all that, I still think there might be something to
>the runoff-on-snowtheory. Ironically (is nature capable of
>irony?) you might see it with the coldest rains. Supercooled
>rain falling on cold snow (not isothermal snow) could freeze
>solid, sealing the surface. I've certainly skied (tried,
>anyway) on snow sealed by melting and re-freezing that promised
>superior impermeability.
>

This is one of the mechanisms that Pat Call says was involved in the Eel
River floods.
dy

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