Sentences with phrase «old snow»
Shyngyz, the 25 year old snow leopard in Tama Zoo.
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The study suggests that up until 1997, whenever the ice caps and glaciers melted, the runoff would be filtered through a layer of older snow called the «firn» and trickle down to the ice surface, where it would freeze again, allowing the glaciers and ice caps to grow each winter.
Wearing your child in the colder months of the year is an amazing solution to stroller tires stuck in snow banks and a great way to keep your hands free while accompanying older snow bunnies.
ORDA mountain managers have worked steadily in the past six years to add snowmaking equipment, updating older snow guns to more energy - efficient models, which the annual report says have allowed the resort to prepare for snow deficit.
In fact, zoo staff and scientists are still learning more about how to keep old snow leopards young as more and more of them thrive in well - designed exhibits throughout the world.
Crunching across old snow to the driver's side, she checked the throttle and ignition, then returned to the handle and cranked again.
Moving Landscapes — The Hay Wain (after John Constable), 2012, digital print on advertising billboard, 610 x 305 cm, installation view, Old Snow Hill, Birmingham.
There is of course a lot of uncertainty about the details, that affect the melt rates, we just don't know how quickly warmer seawater will undercut floating glaciers, and buildup of darker older snow / ice layers will increase the amount of absorbed sun light.
Most blizzards there are made up of old snow that is blowing around.
Some of those old snow - shoes that Mellie concocted are still on the trail, giving good service.
It's 100,000 - year - old snow that is compressed,» Halzen says.
Shynghyz, one of the snow leopards in Tama Zoo, Tokyo, is most probably the oldest snow leopard in the world.
It's turning out to be one of the snowiest winters on record, and since the temps haven't risen above freezing all the old snow is still just sitting on the streets, driveways and park waiting for the warm sun.
Not as warm as my old snow boots, but they also didn't leak, so much better on the whole.
seat warmers and steering wheel warmer are wonderful too, backup camera and auto closing rear door very convenient, wheels and tires the same size as our old durango so we could even use our old snow tires on it.
Well, we just moved up from a 2014 BMW i3 BEV to the i3s, so I went to the garage and stuck the old snow tires and wheels on only to discover they rub!
The difference between modern winter tires and those old snow tires is night and day, in the ratio of rubber on the road, and the chemistry of the rubber.
To accompany this special announcement, Kevin Butler has thrown on the old snow boots and recorded a special video directed toward the shivering people of Canada.
This occurs because fresh snow is much more reflective than old snow or bare ice.
The portion reflected (called the albedo) is affected by precipitation and ablation, because fresh snow is more reflective than old snow or ablating ice.
Data from sensors in the snow suggest that the lenses block summer meltwater from percolating into deeper, older snow, known as firn.
This is old snow in the process of being compacted into glacier ice, and covers the island in a layer up to 80 metres thick.