Sentences with phrase «temperature than the snow»

Model simulations indicate that the snow - ice interface temperature or alternatively the 6 GHz brightness temperature is a closer proxy for the 50 GHz effective temperature than the snow surface or air temperature

Not exact matches

Stormy with freezing rain, heavy snow or just glacial with sub-zero temperatures — long story short, we are more often than not staying indoors, except for the necessary grocery trips.

Rain, snow, hail, extreme temperatures, changes in humidity and even sunshine can all make vintage railcars deteriorate much more quickly than they would if protected from these natural hazards...

A combination of favorable temperatures and a new snowmaking system which underwent $ 30 million in upgrades, will allow Mount Snow to open with the most terrain in the East at more than 100 acres.

While the odds of flooding are lower than last week, when heavy rain fell and snow melted in 60 degree temperatures, the potential for ice jam flooding remains elevated.

Temperatures across New York and New England hit sub-zero levels Tuesday morning, a day after a storm dumped more than a foot of snow from Buffalo to the Hudson Valley.

When the temperature beneath a layer of snow crystals is significantly higher than the temperature above, ice from crystals lower in the snowpack sublimes — that is, vaporizes directly without melting — and then refreezes onto overlying crystals.

What little snow did fall melted away quickly when warmer - than - average temperatures hit the state in March and April, said Tim Mowry, public information officer for the Alaska Division of Forestry.

The warmer temperatures are melting 60 times more snow from Mt. Hunter today than the amount of snow that melted during the summer before the start of the industrial period 150 years ago, according to the study.

He and his colleagues used more than a dozen climate models to determine the temperature and likely snow duration in the study area for 2050 and 2099.

Although the creatures would have experienced periods of winter darkness and possibly snow, temperatures in the region were warmer than they are today, averaging in the low 40s.

Streamflow reduced by 19 percent in the east watershed and 23 percent in the west, suggesting that warmer temperatures may have more impact on streams than a transition from snow to rain.

In urban areas during the winter when snow cover is less pervasive, temperatures are higher than rural areas in the daytime by an average of 2 °F.

For some winter activities, you need more than simply temperatures below freezing — you need snow.

For example, the global - mean near - surface air temperature was more than 1 K lower than in the experiment assuming spherical snow grains.

The ice sheet's thickness makes its temperature much more resistant to change than the six inches of snow that might fall on your driveway during a winter snowstorm.

It's not even December and we've already had some snow with temperatures dropping faster than you can say hello.

Depending on the level of service to which an organisation subscribes, it will provide regular pdf updates, sent to a phone if required, showing forecast data for RST (road surface temperature — much more relevant than air temperature when deciding when to grit), rainfall, falling snow and road state.

As the snow continues to fall and temperatures drop in Chicago there is no better place to take the kids than Family Day at the auto show!

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Sure, you can set it to snow mode, but if the temperatures are below 40F, if the windshield wipers are on, or if the car even sniffs wheel slip, the Challenger is already in AWD, rather than its default to rear - wheel drive.

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Likewise, short - legged dogs that scrape their bellies on the snow and cold ground are going to lose temperature more quickly than larger dogs.

Being an Arctic dog, all Siberian Huskies have a thick coat (thicker than what most other breeds have) with a dense undercoat and a long topcoat, which both protect the dog against most powerful snow blizzard at temperatures falling as much as -40 degrees Celsius and beyond.

This winter, colder - than - average temperatures have dominated a large portion of the country, resulting in an abundance of snow.

What's more, the abundance of snow cannons assures the pistes are always covered in snow, even if winter temperatures are warmer than expected.

Rainfall can occur at any time of year although in winter, eastern Germany, where temperatures are generally lower than in the west of the country, is more likely to experience snow.

In others, temperatures are warming up and rain storms are far more common than snow.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

If temperatures are at or below freezing (which is true even during this warmer - than - average winter in Colorado), that moisture will precipitate as snow, not rain.

I would expect the albedo effect presented by clouds to be weak over the mostly snow / ice covered Antarctica, but Svensmark argues that the clouds here warm rather than cool the temperature.

In Cohen et al. 2009, we showed a statistically significant link between increasing snow cover extent in Siberia and colder Northern Hemisphere temperatures, so there is more to my article than thinking out loud.

The same meridional blocking pattern hit North America this March, keeping the East at record high temperatures and the West colder than normal such that it snowed in Northern California and also rained much more than normal.

I understand it is because in the last few years the temperature of the Earth has actually cooled so, rather than lose the momentum they had gained to make political inroads to underwrite global measures to control societies» behaviors when it comes to things like use of fossil fuels, proponents decided to cut their losses and change the term so they wouldn't be obviously wrong to the masses as it snowed on various global warming rallies.

Global average temperature is lower during glacial periods for two primary reasons: 1) there was only about 190 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, and other major greenhouse gases (CH4 and N2O) were also lower 2) the earth surface was more reflective, due to the presence of lots of ice and snow on land, and lots more sea ice than today (that is, the albedo was higher).

We don't really know the magnitude of that lag as well as Barton implies we do, because it is very challenging to put CO2 records from ice cores on the same timescale as temperature records from those same ice cores, due to the time delay in trapping the atmosphere as the snow is compressed into ice (the ice at any time will always be younger older than the gas bubbles it encloses, and the age difference is inherently uncertain).

The other argument might be that the FREEZING point of heavy water is also higher than regular water, so more of it would snow out of the air before it gets to Greenland, so the temperature of Greenland matters.

If you've ever wondered why you're buried in snow but keep hearing about how we've experienced «officially, the second warmest year on record» (when we're not being told it could be the warmest year on record), know that «officially» relates to the pronouncements of officials, and «official temperature records» have been «systematically «adjusted» to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.»

That being said, Chicago's temperatures will drop below zero without a snow cover, but probably not lower than about minus 10.

The ice sheet's thickness makes its temperature much more resistant to change than the six inches of snow that might fall on your driveway during a winter snowstorm.

He fails to recognize that the incremental power reflected away from clouds is greater than the surface power trapped by them, or at least this is the case when the temperature is greater than 0C and the ground is snow / ice free.

Furthermore, slightly warmer than normal temperatures increase atmospheric moisture content, elevating potential snow amounts where they occur.»

Fall snow cover in Northern Hemisphere was most extensive on record, even with temperatures at high mark December 4 In 46 years of records, more snow covered the Northern Hemisphere this fall than any other time.

Furthermore, the Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification, and stimulated by the combined increasing Arctic temperatures and rapid loss of sea ice in all seasons along with declining snow cover in the spring and early summer.

That has led to autumn temperatures in the last several years that are six to 10 degrees warmer than they were in the 1980s, said research scientist Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo..»

But the forecast also indicates temperatures will be warmer than normal, which could mean most of that precipitation falls as rain, not snow.

Declines in snowpack are projected to continue as temperatures warm and more winter precipitation falls as rain rather than snow throughout the Pacific Northwest.

(4) Yet as it turns out, UF6 freezes via a gas - > solid transition at lower - than - room temperatures (just as packets of moist air, lifted high into a thunderstorm's anvil cloud, and thus cooled adiabatically by the pressure drop, condense their H20 vapor as hail and snow).

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

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