Why snowline of alps iz 2700m and greenland is 600m?
Answers
'Alps mountain range' is closer to tropics and has snowline of '2700' metres whereas Greenland is present near the 'North Pole' and this is the reason for snowline of just 600 metres.
EXPLANATION:
The altitude that de-limits the lower level of permanent snow is defined as snowline. Therefore, it is the variable lowest level on mountains over which snow never entirely disappears.
It differs with altitude, latitude, humidity, temperature, slope steepness, precipitation and degree of continentality. The interplay of latitude and altitude influences the accurate placement of the snowline at a particular location.
That is why on tropical mountains, the snow line becomes gradually lower as the latitude increases and descends to around 2,700 metres in the Alps (Alps mountain range is closer to tropics and has a snowline of 2700 metres), and to 600 metres in Greenland (Greenland is near the North Pole), falling all the way to sea level itself at the poles and ice caps .