Lakes And Watersheds In The Sierra Nevada Of California
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Author | : John M. Melack |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520278798 |
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The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California’s ecology and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lakes and watersheds will respond.
Author | : John M. Melack |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520967348 |
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The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California’s ecology and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lakes and watersheds will respond.
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) |
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Author | : California. Air Resources Board |
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Release | : 1993 |
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Download Long-term Studies of Lakes and Watershed in the Sierra Nevada, Patterns and Processes of Surface-water Acidification Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : J. C. Blodgett |
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Floods |
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Download Magnitude and Frequency of Floods from Small Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada California Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : George Henry Hinkle |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1839742933 |
Download Sierra-Nevada Lakes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Of the world’s famous mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada is one of the most spectacular in the number and variety of its lakes. From Lassen Peak in the north to Mount Whitney in the south, the crest and Banks of the great barrier are flecked with the blue of thousands of them—there are 429 in Yosemite Park alone, and in a single area of 220 square miles at the southern end of Lake Tahoe there is a galaxy of more than a hundred. These ice-blue pools lie casually in the most unexpected places—in bleak cirques well above timber line, in river bottoms, in densely timbered canyons, and on the summits of boulder-strewed passes. They range in size from navigable bodies of 300 square miles to small glacial ponds of a few acres. Almost every imaginable geologic origin is represented somewhere among them, as well as some unimaginable freaks of contour. As John Muir was probably the first to point out, theirs is the charm of the unpredictable. Around them centers much of the history of California and Nevada, and until now no comprehensive effort has been made by anyone to narrate it. Dr. and Mrs. Hinkle, who are well-nigh ideally equipped to delineate the fascinating history of the Sierra lakes and their near-lying Great Basin neighbors. Both are the descendants of long lines of pioneer forebears. Both were born and grew up in Truckee, the main gateway of the transcontinental route between Nevada and California. Both are inheritors of a great love for the region and of a great mass of family and traditionary lore concerning it. Both are trained in the employment of bibliographical and historical tools for the writing of history. Finally, as husband and wife, they constitute a well-geared, smoothly functioning literary team, each member of which reinforces and supplements the labors and perceptions of the other.
Author | : Stephen J. Nicola |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Lake hydrology |
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Download A Limnological Survey of Reservoirs of the Sierra Nevada, California Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : J. O. Sickman |
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Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Acid deposition |
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Download Characterization of Year-round Sensitivity of California's Montane Lakes to Acidic Deposition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Acid deposition |
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Download Episodic Acidification of Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Kevin J. Kelly Elder |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Mountain ecology |
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Download Spatial and Temporal Variation of Net Snow Accumulation in a Small Alpine Watershed, Emerald Lake Basin, Sierra Nevada, California Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle