Sentences with phrase «snowfall rate monitoring»

Additionally, the Thruway Authority is in the process of installing up to 12 Mesonet snow measurement weather stations that will allow for real - time, localized weather and snowfall rate monitoring.

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Great progress has been made recently in assessing the current rate of mass loss from the ice sheets (Shepherd et al., 2012), as well as monitoring the changing snowfall, surface melting, and temperature contributing to the changes.

Reports from scientists monitoring the situation indicate that a chuck of ice the size of Manhattan (100 sq. kilometers) is about the fall off, with the suspected cause being at least partially to do with increasing flows of warm water moving up the coast due to the region's changing climate, New Scientist reports.Large chunks of ice break off the Petermann glacier all the time, but with a chunk this size breaking away — this 5 billion tons of ice is about half of the glacier's annual flow — it's unlikely that current rates of snowfall elsewhere on the glacier will be able to make up for it.