Abts's art is rich with metaphorical associations: a riffle of playing cards, a field
of hoar frost, a gilded icon.
The overnight frost that had turned the roads treacherous had given it a sugar coating
of hoar.
Not exact matches
Low - temperature electron microscopy images
of depth
hoar are leading to better models for converting the raw satellite readings into accurate measurements
of snowfall.
A layer
of depth
hoar tends to make the snowpack unstable.
In time, this redistribution
of mass leads to large and blocky crystals known as depth
hoar.
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.
A similar slippery and fragile snow layer is something called «surface
hoar» — essentially a morning frost on top
of the snow that gets buried by more snow.
Sharing top billing in the rogues» gallery
of weak layers is a wily meteorological entity known as «depth
hoar.»
Depth
hoar crystals are formed at the base
of a snowpack when water vapor sublimates onto existing snow crystals.
The origin
of summertime crust and surface
hoar formation at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica.
Harking back to his childhood in Canada, Doig made a number
of snowbound landscapes crackling with
hoar - frost and ice during the»90s.
The lusty images
of women along side the rhetoric
of female slander;
hoar, slut, slag — prerequisite view
of what a true women is not suppose to be, yet can be used for.