Sentences with phrase «measures snow depth»

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

The team, which Marc led and provided the logistical support for, deployed from Resolute to Nord Greenland before setting up a rustic field camp on the sea ice for six days, during which time we mechanically drilled the ice to measure thickness, measuring snow depth in a grid pattern along the flight lines as well as dragging instruments along the surface that produced the same measurements for comparison to the airborne data.

The method is based on an empirical relation between UV reflectivity and measured snow depth.

Kwok et al. 2011 measured snow depth from the air in April 2009, via microwave radar, along several Arctic tracks that included a transect from the Alaskan shore through annual ice in the Beaufort Sea, several through multiyear ice and one through mixed annual plus multiyear ice.

NWS NOHRSC has national operational responsibility for modeling and measuring snow depth and snow water equivalent.

Not exact matches

The labyrinthine interiors of depth hoar crystals also cause problems for researchers like the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Al Rango, who uses microwave - sensing satellites to measure the amount of water locked away in the winter snow cover.

Installing snow depth measuring instruments around Longyearbyen will allow Prokop and others to know not only how much snow falls, but also how much snow has been redeposited by the wind.

Snow depth is measured in centimeters (doesn't «thirty centimeters» sound deeper than «eleven inches»?).

During that span, the number of snow - covered days across most of the Swiss Alps declined by 29, and the maximum seasonal snow depth at a number of different measuring stations dropped by 25 percent.

Scientists trudged through thick white powder in Grand Mesa and the Senator Beck Basin to measure the depth of snow — and its water content — for the SnowEx campaign.

The snow cover ECV is also affected because VIIRS data can be used to map areal extent through time but a height / depth - related measure, which is required to make key calculations of mass, is missing.