This is barrel-chested water, snowmelt from the surrounding mountains that can't get to the sea fast enough to suit it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning at Large] Reference

A combination of snowmelt from the Tibetan plateau and torrential rains in southern China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Suspect most of it is still left over from snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

I was thinking that it would be swollen with snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Case]

Like a color map of twin snowmelt lakes in a high mountain landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

So people who live near mountains, they get their water from snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2007] Reference

But this year, with the late snowmelt, I'll be lucky if I get to half.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Earlier spring snowmelt in northern Alaska as an indicator of climate change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future changes in ultraviolet radiation in the Arctic] Reference

Places we had not been able to get into before the massive snowmelt this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Last week, while I was taking shots of the Honeycombs reflected in snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

This is very likely to result in an early onset of snowmelt along these rivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broad-scale effects of climate change on freshwater systems in the Arctic] Reference

Glaciers and snowmelt also contribute to flows and their variability and timing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being] Reference

In the spring, elevated levels of solar radiation often result in rapid snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic] Reference

Water from snowmelt dripping noisily through the ceiling onto the Mayor's deskmat.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

These only fully flow in the spring and after catastrophic snowmelt during eruptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation] Reference

He stood with his head down and his winter coat was pressed in dark curls to his skin from snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

Early snowmelt allows geese to forage and females to build up nutrient stores before nest initiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation] Reference

They compared climate - related data, like temperature trends, wildfire levels, and snowmelt variables.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2006] Reference

Only when her feet splashed through a wide stream of shallow snowmelt did her eyes focus on the open fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit'ch Storm]

We knew they'd come up against the river soon, and it was in spring flood from the snowmelt in the mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

I have to imagine what that torrent looked like later in the day, after the sunny warmth accelerated snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

A wildlife watering device that collects rainwater and snowmelt, and stores it underneath the fiberglass cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

He pulls his stocking foot out of the puddle of oily snowmelt and walks carefully toward the café's front door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blink] Reference

The southern sun lit green fields, set trees to shimmer, and sparkled off the ice-cold snowmelt in the Elk River.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Case]

Devils Lake keeps getting larger because it has no natural river or stream to carry away excess rain and snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devils Lake, North Dakota, Swallows Land And Buildings] Reference

The fire pit was well stocked with embers and Joseph Hayhurst had converted helmets into vessels to hold snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firestorm]

The West, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska could see changes in the thickness of snowpack and the timing of snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet Address Paper On The Challenge Of Global Warming] Reference

Water catchment installed in remote, arid areas to collect rain and snowmelt to provide drinking water for animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Ladakh is a desert, absolutely dry and free of vegetation, the lush river valleys fed entirely by Himalayan snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account] Reference

The reddening sunrise and mountain reflected in an alkali lake covered with just a few inches of reflecting snowmelt.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The air over the snowmelt was delightfully chill, and the breeze pushed cool tongues partway under his wretched cloaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

So any snowmelt that occurred during the day we saw refreezing at night and only that increased the weight of the snow pack.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007] Reference

SERWER: Chris, quick last question, even if you live in the snowmelt, say Syracuse or Green Bay, houses is a good investment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2005] Reference

Subarctic – nival: dominated by spring snowmelt events, with peak water levels often the product of backwater from ice jams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrestrial Water Balance in the Arctic] Reference

With mountains and snowmelt come rivers -- so there's always white-water rafting and kayaking -- and usually a nice lake nearby.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOES YOUR VACATION NEED A LIFT?] Reference

The road was solid, although it often isn't in the spring, but lined with standing pools of recent snowmelt in the barrow ditches.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

In arctic watersheds, precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration, and snowmelt is the dominant hydrologic event despite its short duration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrestrial Water Balance in the Arctic] Reference