Sentences with phrase «as snow accumulation»

«If the structure is indeed the result of the 2004 impact, we would expect it to have undergone about 10 years of alteration by processes such as snow accumulation, erosion by the wind, and deformation by the flow of the ice shelf itself.»

Not exact matches

The Mesonet system will collect measurements such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, surface pressure, soil moisture, soil temperature, solar radiation, and precipitation amounts for rainfall and snow accumulation.

He did have time to tweet that New York City residents should be wary of snow falls this morning, as accumulations are currently predicted to amount to a terrifying 1 - 3 inches.»

This will keep the moisture of the system down, but conversely lead to higher than typical accumulation for the amount of moisture produced, as colder air creates snow that is drier and fluffier.

Snow falls lightly at the poles, but as each year's accumulation is compressed into ice, it encases chemical hallmarks of the atmosphere and climate, including traces of major eruptions.

They found that if greenhouse gases continue to be emitted at the pace they're currently on, melt could outpace the accumulation of snow there as early as 2090.

Snow accumulation builds up the ice sheet, but the extra flakes have not acted as a life raft for West Antarctica's ice sheet, which previous research has found is rapidly thinning as the climate warms, Thomas said.

When firn is buried beneath subsequent snow accumulations, density increases as air spaces between the crystals are reduced by mechanical packing and plastic deformation until... interconnected air passages between grains are sealed off into individual air bubbles (Herron and Langway, 1980).

Rubin, M.J., and M.B. Giovinetto, Snow accumulation in central West Antarctica as related to atmospheric and topographic factors, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.

I chose a mid-height so that snow wouldn't get inside my boots if the accumulation was high, as in recent years.

I was digging myself out from many different piles of life's accumulations, as well as four feet of snow after a storm.

This will prevent snow, ice and salt accumulation as your dog walks outdoors.

Snow and ice often accumulate on rooftops and if the sun is out or as temperatures rise, this accumulation can slide and injure your dog.

Re # 42 (Smygga): The second study analyzed direct measurements of the surface (which account for snow accumulation and * minor * loss factors such as surface melt and blowing snow), but used a 1999 study to estimate the major loss factors of iceberg discharge and basal melting.

What you've said is encapulated in my short statement that there is uncertainty in the lag / lead precisely because of uncertainty in the trapping time, which does (as you say) vary with conditions (notably, temperature and snow accumulation rate).

Amount of advance or retreat of the glacier snout is as much about snow accumulation above the permanent snowline as temperature.

That the ice core CO2 levels are reasonable for CO2 measurements can be seen as different ice cores at very different snow / ice temperatures, inclusions (coastal salts vs. inland salts content), accumulation rates, ice age — gas age differences,... show the same CO2 levels (within 5 ppmv) for overlapping periods of gas age.

As a result, snow accumulation is typically very low near the summit of an ice sheet.

Residual snow accumulation (final late snow balance: Mayo et al., 1972) at the end of the ablation season is determined using probing and crevasse stratigraphy on the same date as ablation measurements are completed.

Other proxy data, such as dust concentration, and snow accumulation, suggest an even more rapid transition, requiring about a 7 °C (13 °F) warming in just a few years.»

In the Bay Area, conditions will not be quite as favorable as in the Central Valley, but while precipitation will probably start out as rain under 2000 feet snow levels will drop quickly on the back end of the precipitation band associated with the cold front, possibly bringing some snow accumulations down to 1000 feet and a brief rain / snow mix to even lower elevations.

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

The study focused on modeling frost and snow related land surface processes, such as frost churning, palsa mires and snow accumulation sites.

Now if you are wondering about Arctic Sea Ice and doubt anecdotal evidence, you could look at Greenland Snow Accumulation as a proxy of sea ice extent and find that around 1940 there was higher than normal accumulation, but not quite as high as 2012 or circa 1750.

Dansgaard et al. (1989); increasingly abrupt changes were seen on further study, Johnsen et al. (1992); Grootes et al. (1993); jumps of Greenland snow accumulation «possibly in one to three years» were reported by Alley et al. (1993); see Alley (2000); five - year Younger Dryas steps: Taylor et al. (1997); a Younger Dryas temperature step in less than a decade was found to be hemisphere - wide since methane gas changed as well, Severinghaus et al. (1998).

Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20120013495 SCAR ISMASS Workshop, July 14, 2012 «During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change

Scientists: Warming causes Antarctic ice sheet growth, and lower sea levels By Kenneth Richard While many scientists are projecting rapid sea level rise as a result of a warmer Antarctica and consequent ice sheet melting, other scientists are projecting that the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet will gain in mass because a warmer Antarctica means snow and ice accumulation will outpace the -LSB-...]

As warmer air can hold more moisture, it is possible that increasing snow accumulation compensates part of the sea level rise.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120013495.pdf During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change.

When firn is buried beneath subsequent snow accumulations, density increases as air spaces between the crystals are reduced by mechanical packing and plastic deformation until... interconnected air passages between grains are sealed off into individual air bubbles (Herron and Langway, 1980).

That all changed with the Supreme Judicial Court's 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., in which the court abolished any legal distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and instead said that a property owner has a duty to act «as a reasonable person under all the circumstances» with regard to removal of snow and ice.

Because our existing case law holds that a property owner does not violate the duty of reasonable care by failing to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice, see Sullivan v. Brookline, 416 Mass. 825, 827 (1994), the judge concluded that, as a matter of law, the plaintiff could not prevail on his claims of negligence; therefore, the judge allowed the defendants» motions for summary judgment.

Placing different obligations for snow removal on different kinds of properties (e.g., businesses and small homes) is entirely sensible and is part of a larger historical trend recognizing that liability for landowners should not hinge on hard - and - fast legal rules (such as the «natural accumulation rule») but instead should depend upon the purposes for which the property is used.

The most common causes for ankle injuries in slip and fall cases is as a result of snow and ice accumulation on a poorly maintained surface.

Under what is known as the «Massachusetts Rule,» a property owner was not liable for failing to remove a natural accumulation of snow and ice.

This rule, as we apply it, provides that a landlord or business invitor owes aduty to a tenant or business invitee 1292 * 1292 «to use reasonable care to see that the common areas are kept reasonably safe from the dangers created by an accumulation of snow and ice which is attributed to purely natural causes.»