Sentences with phrase «new snow layer»

Every year that it snows in Antarctica, the new snow layer weighs on the previous layer, compacting over hundreds or thousands of years to eventually form layers of ice.

Not exact matches

The new cores, drilled from Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, are special because most of their 1,800 - year history exists as clearly defined layers of light and dark: light from the accumulated snow of the wet season, and dark from the accumulated dust of the dry season.

To get more detailed temperature data, the researchers used two relatively new methods of investigation, both of which examine the layer of compressed granular snow that is formed between the top layer of soft and fluffy snow and the layer deeper down in the ice sheet, where the compressed snow has been turned into ice.

Each year, the glaciers gain a new layer of snow, embedded with particles from the air, including mercury.

Those people in New England and D / FW who are shivering now are experiencing cold * weather * (although note it was an ice storm, not a snow storn, which means there was a warm layer aloft).

Slowly, the weight of new layers deforms the snow crystals below them.

January in New York just doesn't quite feel like winter without a layer of snow covering the sidewalks.

Basically I'm not one to start a new wardrobe from scratch at the hint of a summer sun of the first snow fall — I break the rules a little... I layer!

Though the added layer of seasons and dynamic weather don't necessarily change the game by any means or spawn anything new, it does bring the land of Gemea to life further by giving it a realistic and vibrant change of color as the seasons pass by, the wind blows, and snows and rains accordingly.

And one artist is adding a transfixing layer to that romanticism by turning the snow - covered cars of New York into pages ripe for cursive.

Working in multi-media, New York - based artist Erin Shirreff's work encourages the viewer to see objects in new ways: unsettling spacial and sensory experience by creating sculptural works specifically for the camera that confuse perception; layering still photographs in video to present a new experience of the Moon or James Turrell's great unfinished Roden Crater work (2009); exploring myriad interferences of glare and shadow at play on a computer screen; and presenting only one façade of a familiar Tony Smith work in an outdoor commission, Sculpture for SnNew York - based artist Erin Shirreff's work encourages the viewer to see objects in new ways: unsettling spacial and sensory experience by creating sculptural works specifically for the camera that confuse perception; layering still photographs in video to present a new experience of the Moon or James Turrell's great unfinished Roden Crater work (2009); exploring myriad interferences of glare and shadow at play on a computer screen; and presenting only one façade of a familiar Tony Smith work in an outdoor commission, Sculpture for Snnew ways: unsettling spacial and sensory experience by creating sculptural works specifically for the camera that confuse perception; layering still photographs in video to present a new experience of the Moon or James Turrell's great unfinished Roden Crater work (2009); exploring myriad interferences of glare and shadow at play on a computer screen; and presenting only one façade of a familiar Tony Smith work in an outdoor commission, Sculpture for Snnew experience of the Moon or James Turrell's great unfinished Roden Crater work (2009); exploring myriad interferences of glare and shadow at play on a computer screen; and presenting only one façade of a familiar Tony Smith work in an outdoor commission, Sculpture for Snow.

Over thousands of years, the layers of snow pile up into thick masses of ice, growing thicker and denser as the weight of new snow and ice layers compresses the older layers.

Each year, a new layer of snow accumulates, burying the previous years snow.

Notable changes include the following: the model top is now above the stratopause, the number of vertical layers has increased, a new cloud microphysical scheme is used, vegetation biophysics now incorporates a sensitivity to humidity, atmospheric turbulence is calculated over the whole column, and new land snow and lake schemes are introduced.

While there is a risk that I will fall down while walking in my back lane during the summer, the risk that I will do so right now while it is a sheet of ice covered with a thin layer of new snow, is a heck of a lot higher.