• Heavy snow or
ice accumulation on building roofs, outdoor equipment, power lines, leading to potential collapse.
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.
Annual mass balance is the difference between winter snow and
ice accumulation on a glacier, and summer snow and ice loss from a glacier during a given year.
Ice accumulation on land lowered sea level by about 400 feet (120 meters).
Not exact matches
That doesn't provide a full picture of snow
accumulation, since it doesn't take into account the density of the snow layers that pile
on the
ice.
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Ice accumulation was delayed ten times longer
on our samples than
on superhydrophobic or lubricant impregnated - surfaces in all the
icing scenarios.
David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author
on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which
ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow
accumulation relative to melting.
But the large volumes of data
on Arctic sea and land
ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenla
ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland
Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenla
Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall
accumulation models for all of Greenland.
Annual snow
accumulation on West Antarctica's coastal
ice sheet increased dramatically during the 20th century, according to a new study published in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
For typical mid-latitude glaciers, winter snow
accumulation is
on the order of 1 m / year (
ice equivalent — or about 3 m of snow).
The effects
on ice sheets due to increasing temperature may accelerate, but as documented by the IPCC the effects are not easily projected accurately and in the case of the Antarctic, may trigger an
accumulation of additional
ice mass.
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.
On the boundary of the Banff and Jasper National Parks is the Columbia Icefield, one of the largest
accumulations of
ice and snow south of the Arctic Circle, covering an area of nearly 325 square kilometres.
For typical mid-latitude glaciers, winter snow
accumulation is
on the order of 1 m / year (
ice equivalent — or about 3 m of snow).
To give another, more specific example, at a typical glacier
on Mt. Baker, in Washington State, a summer temperature increase of 1 °C translates to a ~ 150 m increase in the altitude of the equilibrium line (the point where annual
ice accumulation = annual loss), and a resulting ~ 2 km retreat of the glacier terminus.
Because the drains out of the various bathtubs involved in the climate — atmospheric concentrations, the heat balance of the surface and oceans,
ice sheet
accumulations, and thermal expansion of the oceans — are small and slow, the emissions we generate in the next few decades will lead to changes that,
on any time scale we can contemplate, are irreversible.
And it means more time must be spent
on those
ice sheets, both in the melt zones and the places where
accumulation of snow still dominates — including Swiss Camp, which I visited
on the flanks of the
ice sheet in 2004:
On the other hand, the correlation between accumulated emissions and
accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is much better: it is a near fit over the last 100 + years (60 years of
ice core data, near 50 years of MLO data).
Therefore, the processes of
accumulation and ablation are the physical link between glaciers and climate, which explains why these
ice bodies are such valuable tracers of climate variability
on the scale of decades and centuries.
Equilibrium line - The boundary between the region
on a glacier where there is a net annual loss of
ice mass (ablation area) and that where there is a net annual gain (
accumulation area).
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).
New paper finds East Antarctic
ice sheet will have negative contribution to sea levels over next 200 years — Published The Cryosphere — Paper «studies one of the largest
ice shelves in East Antarctica and predicts increased
accumulation of
ice on the surface of the
ice shelf will have a net contribution of decreasing sea levels over the 21st and 22nd centuries.
With greater
accumulation of dense
ice on the crystal, its fall velocity increases.
In this way Antarctica undergoes rapid
ice loss followed by periods of slower recuperation depending
on regional rates of snow
accumulation.
229 Time resolution
on the scale of a year or two can be obtained from semi-fossil trees, e.g., Roig et al (2001) have a 1229 - year - long stretch of tree - ring widths from the middle of the last
ice age at 40 ° S that shows abrupt droughts with abrupt recoveries (tenfold changes in yearly
accumulation), but they are floating in absolute time and such local records can not yet be matched to events in the
ice - core records.
On Columbia, Daniels, Foss,
Ice Worm, Lower Curtis, Sholes, and Yawning Glacier thinning is not notably less in the
accumulation zone than the ablation zone, indicating disequilibrium (Pelto, 2006).
Conditions have been so warm and dry that at least one glacial outburst flood has occurred
on the slopes of Mt. Shasta as winter
ice accumulation decreases and summer melt accelerates.
Observation of a precipitation map (focused not
on the outer margin, but
on the
accumulation zone of the
ice sheet) indicates that highest
accumulation rates, over 40 cm per year, extend along the western side of the
ice sheet to the southeast quadrant of the
ice sheet.
$ 150,000 settlement for 84 year old male Plaintiff who had slipped and fallen
on an unnatural
accumulation of
ice on his apartment complex's entryway.
Where the obstruction was snow or
ice on stairs or a walkway, a landlord could be held liable to the tenant only if he placed the snow or
ice there, or was otherwise responsible for it being there, which he would not be if the snow and
ice were a natural
accumulation.
Obtained a settlement
on behalf of a client who was injured when she slipped and fell
on ice that was not the result of a natural
accumulation.
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.
Rather, the plaintiff alleged that the landlord was liable for failing to place a railing
on either side of the steps, and for constructing the steps in such a manner that «they occasioned the
accumulation of
ice and snow thereon improperly.»
This court abolished, in premises liability actions involving a slip and fall
on snow and
ice, the distinction between natural and unnatural
accumulations of snow and
ice, which had constituted an exception to the general rule of premises liability that a property owner owes a duty to all lawful visitors to use reasonable care to maintain its property in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances [370 - 384]; further, this court saw no reason to limit its holding to prospective application [384 - 386].
RI Slip and Fall
on Ice and Snow Law: «Rhode Island follows the «Connecticut Rule» when determining the duty of care to keep a premises safe from naturally occurring accumulations of ice and sn
Ice and Snow Law: «Rhode Island follows the «Connecticut Rule» when determining the duty of care to keep a premises safe from naturally occurring
accumulations of
ice and sn
ice and snow.