Sentences with phrase «winter snow accumulation»

At higher elevations, an increase in winter snow accumulation has partially offset the melt.

A combination of low winter snow accumulation and warm spring temperatures created a new record low spring snow cover duration over the Arctic in 2010, since satellite observations began in 1966.

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

The weather does provide challenges however; clearing winter snow accumulation is the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team's first physical challenge on their arrival to begin the season.

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

Not exact matches

Less than 24 hours before the City of Buffalo was anticipating its first snow accumulation of December, Mayor Byron Brown declared the city's streets personnel ready not just for the forecasted weather but for the entire coming winter season.

Another winter storm is expected to hit the region tomorrow, with a significant accumulation of snow.

With over three feet of snow still in our backyard from this winter's accumulation, I'm desperate for spring to come to Minnesota.

This 2013 GMC Acadia Denali with AWD saved me during a commute in a late - winter storm that included white - out conditions and 2 inches or more of snow accumulation.

Locked in the ancient striations — each representing a winter's accumulation of compacted snow — is a unique natural record of climatic and atmospheric conditions from decades, centuries, even millenniums past.

In the winter time vast amounts of moisture is circulated in a wide area through snow accumulations.

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

A glacier is divided into an ablation zone where all accumulated snow is lost from the winter and an accumulation zone where snowpack is retained to the end of the summer.

Blanc - Betes E, Welker JM, Sturchio NC, Chanton JP, Gonzalez - Meler MA (2016) Winter precipitation and snow accumulation drive the methane sink or source strength of Arctic tussock tundra.

I live a few hundred miles south - west of Korttajärvi and here we are in a zone where there is little snow accumulation in most winters.

In some regions where winter precipitation is projected to increase, the increased snowfall can more than make up for the shorter snow season and yield increased snow 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.

Snow is common in the winter with some accumulation.