Sentences with phrase «winter ice accumulation»

Conditions have been so warm and dry that at least one glacial outburst flood has occurred on the slopes of Mt. Shasta as winter ice accumulation decreases and summer melt accelerates.

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For typical mid-latitude glaciers, winter snow accumulation is on the order of 1 m / year (ice equivalent — or about 3 m of snow).

For typical mid-latitude glaciers, winter snow accumulation is on the order of 1 m / year (ice equivalent — or about 3 m of snow).

Consequently winter snows and ice accumulations which were formerly melted in summer are no longer dissipated.

There is also a near certainty that totally unanticipated events will be retroactively «predicted» by revising the models; prime examples being the retroactive predictions of the «hiatus», the last unusual N.American cold winter, and the Antarctic ice accumulation.

Annual mass balance is the difference between winter snow and ice accumulation on a glacier, and summer snow and ice loss from a glacier during a given year.

A «Winter Storm Watch» has been posted for the nation's capitol and there is a potential for significant snow... sleet... or ice accumulations.

Here in Minnesota, a large portion of these claims occur during the winter due to heavy accumulation of ice and snow.

The second justification offered for the natural accumulation rule is that enforcement of an affirmative obligation to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice would be impractical, if not impossible, given the nature of the winter climate in the Commonwealth.