Dust from Great Salt Lake is eroding snowpack
“We used the amount of dust in the snowpack to calculate how much additional sunlight
the dust would absorb relative to a dust-free snowpack,” says McKenzie Skiles, assistant
professor of geography, “We found that from this one event, dust accelerated snowmelt
by five days. And dust from all events [in the spring of 2017] accelerated snowmelt
by 25 percent.”
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