Sentences with phrase «snow pits»

When safety managers in ski areas find such layers in snow pits dug during routine inspections, they issue warnings, close off vulnerable areas, and sometimes fire mortars into the snowpack to provoke an avalanche before it can catch anyone off guard.

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

«I have stood in snow pits with dozens of people — drillers, journalists, and others — and so far, every visitor has been impressed.

Blue light filtered through the wall of an Antarctic snow pit illuminates «Tuck,» the mascot for Tuckahoe Elementary School in Henrico County, Virginia.

The seasonal snow layers are easiest to see in snow pits, writes Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor in the Environment Institute and Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.

These snow pits, as they are called, are the basic tools of avalanche prediction.

An NSF - funded researcher points to annual layers of snow accumulation in a snow pit located near the South Pole.

A snow pit shows off the season - by - season stratigraphy at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide.

We present several related datasets from a 2012 snow pit and a 2013 firn core collected near the WAIS Divide field camp in West Antarctica.

Snow pits are dug to measure snowfall.

The seasonal snow layers are easiest to see in snow pits, writes Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor in the Environment Institute and Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.

Currently this measurement network comprises about 10 snow pits and about 50 ablation stakes distributed across the glacier.

NCGCP dug more than 100 snow pits to measure bulk density between 1984 and 1986, and found that it ranged from 0.59 - 0.63 Mg / m3.

Due to this consistency, snow pits are no longer used, and bulk density at the end of the ablation season is assumed to be 0.60 Mg / m3.