Sentences with phrase «bare ice surface»

Stibal and his colleagues used portable spectrometers and albedometers to measure the reflectivity spectrum of the bare ice surface each day.

Not exact matches

Today, patches of bare ice blot its surface, revealing great twisting crevasses in its face.

The measurements shown here represent the temperature of the «skin» (or top 1 millimeter) of the land surface during the daytime — including bare land, snow or ice cover, urban areas, and cropland or forest canopy.

This is getting to be about the right time of year, there will be 50 degree days that during the night the temp drops below the dew point wringing water out of the air which collects on the grass (but not bare surfaces), and under an ice cold sky turns to frost.

Snow and ice reflect more sunlight than bare ground, meaning less solar radiation is absorbed by the surface.