Sentences with phrase «snowfall accumulation»
The phrase "snowfall accumulation" refers to the amount of snow that has built up or collected on the ground over a certain period of time. Full definition
Let's start with the record five - plus feet of snowfall accumulation in Erie, Pennsylvania, in late December.
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Oswego County: a Winter Storm Warning which is in effect until Friday at 10:00 a.m. Total snowfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches are forecast.
The latter is especially true for land ice (Antarctica and Greenland) because you have to wait for snowfall accumulation and conversion to ice.
This seasonal outlook does not project where and when snowstorms may hit or provide total seasonal snowfall accumulations.
But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.
Land - based ice in glaciers and ice - sheets will keep contributing to sea level rise as long as melting exceeds snowfall accumulation; stopping the growth of temperature would not stop the net melting.
After a weeklong delay in data availability from a 61st satellite maneuver in 13 years to makeup low earth orbit drag, we find Greenland ice reflectivity (a.k.a. albedo) returning toward higher values, evidence of fresh snowfall accumulation and accompanying lower temperatures now as the melt season approaches its end.
The site was selected after several years of searching because of the depth of the ice sheet there (nearly 3,500 meters) and relatively high annual snowfall accumulations.
However, logging had opened the forest canopy, changing the pattern of snowfall accumulation, snow melt and forest - floor vegetation.
For example, changes in the mass of the ice sheets can be estimated by using other satellite data to compare discharges of peripheral ice to snowfall accumulations.
Scientists have adopted three general approaches to ice sheet mass balance measurement: comparing outflow and melt to snowfall accumulation (the mass budget method), observing changes in glacier elevation (volume change or geodetic method), and detecting changes in the Earth's gravity field over the ice sheet (gravimetric method).
Ice cores contain layers or rings that vary in thickness according to annual snowfall accumulations and the depth from which they are recovered, as snow is laid down and compacted into hard ice over thousands of years.
Similarly Greenland's snowfall accumulation is at all time highs and recent GRACE results show that after several years of accelerated ice loss due to glacier thinning, the net loss from Greenland in 2013 - 2014 was insignificant.