05-03-2019 01:23 via vancouversun.com

More rain than snow in the Fraser River basin as climate warms: UNBC study

Nearly half of the Fraser River basin will have gone through a transition from snow-dominated to rain-dominated by the end of this century in response to global warming, two University of Northern B.C. professors are predicting.
Dr. Stephen Déry and Dr. Siraj Ul Islam base their outlook on a model of the basin’s hydrology. They ran the model for 150 years, from 1950-2099, using future climate projections from 21 global climate models.
As the climate warms, the ratio of snow to rain
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