Northern Hemisphere snowpack loss (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Northern Hemisphere snowpack loss

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Effect of human-driven global warming on spring snowpacks in Northern Hemisphere watersheds from 1981-2020 by percentage of change per decade. Red indicates a decrease and blue indicates an increase. Snowpacks in many far-north watersheds increased as climate change led to more precipitation that fell as snow. But the lower-latitude watersheds that provide water and economic benefits to northern population centers experienced the greatest losses.

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Justin Mankin and Alex Gottlieb/Dartmouth

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