Editing Snow (section)

====Lake and ocean effects====
{{Main|Lake-effect snow}}
[[File:Lake Effect Snow on Earth.jpg|thumb|Cold northwesterly wind over [[Lake Superior]] and [[Lake Michigan]] creating lake-effect snowfall]]

Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer [[lake]] water, warming the lower layer of air which picks up [[water vapor]] from the lake, rises up through the colder air above, freezes, and is deposited on the [[leeward]] (downwind) shores.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/lakesnow.html|title=NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Monitoring & Understanding Our Changing Planet|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102173430/http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/lakesnow.html|archive-date=January 2, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comet.ucar.edu/class/smfaculty/byrd/sld012.htm |title=Fetch |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515101954/http://www.comet.ucar.edu/class/smfaculty/byrd/sld012.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref>

The same effect occurring over bodies of salt water is termed ''ocean-effect'' or ''bay-effect snow''. The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the [[orographic lift|orographic]] influence of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow but very intense bands of precipitation which may deposit at a rate of many inches of snow each hour, often resulting in a large amount of total snowfall.<ref name=mass>{{cite book |last= Mass |first= Cliff |title= The Weather of the Pacific Northwest |year= 2008 |publisher= [[University of Washington Press]] |isbn= 978-0-295-98847-4 |page= 60}}</ref>

The areas affected by lake-effect snow are called [[snowbelt]]s. These include areas east of the [[Great Lakes]], the west coasts of northern Japan, the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] in Russia, and areas near the [[Great Salt Lake]], [[Black Sea]], [[Caspian Sea]], [[Baltic Sea]], and parts of the northern Atlantic Ocean.<ref name="SCHMID">Thomas W. Schmidlin. [https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/23329/1/V089N4_101.pdf Climatic Summary of Snowfall and Snow Depth in the Ohio Snowbelt at Chardon.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408225438/https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/23329/1/V089N4_101.pdf |date=April 8, 2008 }} Retrieved on March 1, 2008.</ref>