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Evaporation and runoff from snow in the Alpine Zone of our western mountains

August 26, 1938

In this informal paper the processes of snow‐wastage at high altitudes were discussed and a number of slides illustrating suncups and sunpits in different stages of development were shown. It was stressed that these features are peculiar to the region above the timber‐line, which biologists term the Alpine, or Arctic‐Alpine, Zone. That regions is, as a matter of fact, primarily and fundamentally a physiographic zone distinct from all other physiographic zones at lower levels by reason of an unusual combination of climatic, hydrologic, and geologic factors.

Publication Year 1938
Title Evaporation and runoff from snow in the Alpine Zone of our western mountains
DOI 10.1029/TR019i002p00662-1
Authors Francois E. Matthes
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
Index ID 70212717
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse