摘要
IONIC pulse of snowmelt and its runoff in seasonally snow-covered alpine catchments was de-fined by Johannessen et al. When a snowpack begins melting, the first meltwater drainingthrough the pack carries a large fraction of the soluble ions with it, an ionic pulse. 10％ of thefirst meltwater may drain 80％ of the soluble contents out of the snowpack within severalhours or days. In other words, an ionic pulse designates a peak in ionic concentration duringthe initial melting process of a snowpack. The peak has been proved by a plot test 10 times
