TY - Generic T1 - Use of snow survey reports in predicting snow runoff T2 - 28th Annual Western Snow Conference Y1 - 1960 A1 - Ball, H. KW - Reservoit regulation, Water supply forecasting AB - A discussion of meteorological occurrences of flood and drought over the Rio Grande river basin is presented. It is pointed out that for the lack of sufficient data to prove any long time or even short cyclic occurrences of weather pattern, the prediction lacks a solid mathematical basis. Historical data from archaeological findings are quoted. The beneficial use of short term (15 year) averages of snow survey, temperature, wind movement, and soil moisture data produce a good forecast of streamflow during the melt season. The economical value of advance information for regulating irrigation reservoirs is pointed out as a distinct value to both power and irrigation interests. JF - 28th Annual Western Snow Conference T3 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual Western Snow Conference PB - Western Snow Conference CY - Santa Fe, New Mexico UR - sites/westernsnowconference.org/PDFs/1960Ball.pdf ER -