Sentences with phrase «snow accumulation between»

He found that the appellants reasonably followed a policy of sending out plows «if there was snow accumulation between midnight and 4:00 a.m. and to continue plowing until the snow was cleared.»

Not exact matches

Annual snow accumulation increased in the early 20th century, rising 30 percent between 1900 and 2010, according to the new study.

The paper draws a convincing connection between the intensification of the Amundsen Sea low - pressure system and increasing snow accumulation, said David Bromwich, a polar weather and climate scientist with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the new paper.

When firn is buried beneath subsequent snow accumulations, density increases as air spaces between the crystals are reduced by mechanical packing and plastic deformation until... interconnected air passages between grains are sealed off into individual air bubbles (Herron and Langway, 1980).

Annual balance is the difference between annual snow accumulation and snow - firn - ice melt (ablation).

Elizabeth Thomas, a palaeoclimatologist, and her colleagues report in Geophysical Research Letters that a study of ice corings revealed that annual snow accumulation increased 30 % between 1900 and 2010.

The difference in CO2 levels between all ice cores drilled in Antarctica with the most extreme differences in snow accumulation and temperature is not more than 5 ppmv for the same average gas age...

Annual mass balance is the difference between winter snow and ice accumulation on a glacier, and summer snow and ice loss from a glacier during a given year.

A question we'd like to be able to answer well is whether the balance between accumulation of snow and ice and ablation (melting, sublimation, and loss of ice to the ocean via iceberg calving) is positive or negative.

When firn is buried beneath subsequent snow accumulations, density increases as air spaces between the crystals are reduced by mechanical packing and plastic deformation until... interconnected air passages between grains are sealed off into individual air bubbles (Herron and Langway, 1980).

That all changed with the Supreme Judicial Court's 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., in which the court abolished any legal distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and instead said that a property owner has a duty to act «as a reasonable person under all the circumstances» with regard to removal of snow and ice.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled or delayed at O'Hare and Midway Airports and total snow accumulations this morning are expected to range between one and three inches.

This court abolished, in premises liability actions involving a slip and fall on snow and ice, the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice, which had constituted an exception to the general rule of premises liability that a property owner owes a duty to all lawful visitors to use reasonable care to maintain its property in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances [370 - 384]; further, this court saw no reason to limit its holding to prospective application [384 - 386].

The Supreme Judicial Court granted further appellate review, and, after reviewing the law in this area over the last century, the Court concluded that the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice was a «relic of abandoned landlord - tenant law» which «has sown confusion and conflict in our case law.»

Between 1AM Sunday and 5AM Tuesday, Jackson Hole's Rendezvous Bowl reported 24 inches of snow, and Grand Targhee reported 19 inches of snow with additional accumulation forecasted in the mountains prior to the lifts spinning up.