Sentences with phrase «drifting snow processes»
His results clearly indicate that mainly on Antarctica, where wind speeds are the highest on Earth, drifting snow processes are important.
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But there's a lack of knowledge about the driving mechanisms behind the process and how the turbulent flow, drifting snow, and snow cover all interact.»
Drifting snow is a complicated and poorly understood process that is important to fathom because it accounts for a major fraction of wind - blown snow redistribution within polar and mountainous regions of the world.
These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.