Sentences with phrase «of small ice crystals»

This may suggest that for a given optical thickness, the influence of particle shape on the radiative forcing caused by a cloud composed of small ice crystals can be negligible.

By understanding the underlying physics producing the emissivity difference between these channels, this emissivity difference can be used to infer the relative concentration of small ice crystals.

Repeat this stirring process two or three times, or until the granita has an even consistency of small ice crystals; it should be grainy but not mushy.

There, they calculated the so - called free energy cost for the formation of small ice crystal nuclei.

Not exact matches

The benefit of using an ice cream machine is that it freezes the ice cream mixture while churning it to aerate the mixture and keep the ice crystals small (less than 50 μm).

The faster you freeze your ice cream, the smaller the ice crystals, as the water has less time to be driven out of the sugar - water solution to form ice crystals.

From Dec. 26 through February (weather permitting), a small glacier - sized building will be erected out of ice crystals.

The top right inset shows a magnified image of a small area in the centre of the ice crystal.

The present data suggest that the ice is in the form of small crystals, comprising about 0.3 percent to 1 percent of the moon's rocky soil.

Even a small change in temperature or humidity can radically alter the shape and size of a snowflake, making it notoriously difficult to model these ice crystals on a computer.

The small amount of heat released when water vapor condenses on ice crystals in Arctic clouds, which contain both water and ice, determines the cloud's survival, according to scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Environment Canada.

Although droplets are thousands of times more numerous, previous studies have shown that adding even a small number of ice crystals to these clouds can lead to a fast dissipation of the cloud water.

Taking a closer look at the properties of water droplets and ice crystals within clouds, the team found that pollution resulted in smaller droplets and ice crystals, regardless of location.

If they exist in the simulated form, the researchers believe that the crystal organisms could be found in the rings of Uranus and Saturn, which are made up of small grains of ice.

When the snow gets packed down by subsequent layers, the space between the crystals is eventually sealed off, trapping a small sample of the atmosphere in newly formed ice.

Glacial Specimens (flame worked glass with clay and acrylic paint) consists of several small mixed media glass sculptures which capture the ephemeral nature of snow and ice crystals.

When the snow gets packed down by subsequent layers, the space between the crystals is eventually sealed off, trapping a small sample of the atmosphere in newly formed ice.

Thus, the entrainment source of ice nuclei was relatively large (compared to previous case studies) and the sedimentation sink of ice crystals was small.

To date, the airborne in situ measurements of the cirrus PSD have contained large uncertainties due to errors in measuring small ice crystals (D ≲ 60 μm).

As snow is compressed, air is expelled to the surface, leaving only a relatively small example of the air remaining between the ice crystals.

At midnight it was -15 C outside in light winds in a small High Arctic Barrow Strait bay (74 43 North) and larger patches of grey ice were forming amongst open water with a star light night with ice crystals columns, it looks like my -11 C surface temperature refreeze setting may need to be revised to a cooler number.

Mishchenko, M.I., and K. Sassen, 1998: Depolarization of lidar returns by small ice crystals: An application to contrails.

Smaller Containment Dome, aka Top Hat The first containment dome failed because of ice - like crystals, called hydrates, formed at the top, clogging the pipe that was supposed to allow the oil to be siphoned up to the surfance, and also making the dome too buoyant to form an effective seal around the leak.

In this study, we model single - scattering properties of small cirrus crystals using mixtures of polydisperse, randomly oriented spheroids and cylinders with varying aspect ratios and with a refractive index representative of water ice at a wavelength of 1.88 µm.

In Canada, we're most familiar with icewine — frozen grapes are gently crushed, separating a small amount of superconcentrated juice from a lot of frozen ice crystals.