Sentences with phrase «snow mass»

Prof. Peters with his research team are now developing a model that calculates the properties and behaviour of snow masses under high and low strain rates based on the structure of microscopic snow particles.

Glaciers that have no chance to get snow mass will eventually disappear,» Fujita said.

Scientists understand the conditions that trigger these so - called glide avalanches, but a new analysis of field data stretching back to the 1930s suggests that conditions inside the snow masses — and therefore the forces and stresses that they impose on structures in their paths — have been woefully underestimated in some cases.

A person saved from a snow mass within 15 minutes has a 90 per cent chance of survival.

Whereas meteorological variables like temperature, humidity, winds and precipitation were routinely measured at weather stations around the world, there were little or no observations of land surface states like soil temperature, moisture, and snow mass, or important terms of surface energy and water budgets such as shortwave and longwave radiation, evaporation or sensible heat fluxes.