Sentence examples for coarse snow from inspiring English sources

Four snow types were identified and mapped: frost, fine, medium and coarse snow.

In 2010, frost and fine snow covered 19 km2 (20 %) and 76 km2 (79 %) respectively, medium snow covered 1 km2 (1 %), and coarse snow was not traced.

In 1990, 38 km2 (30%% of SCA) was covered by frost snow, 86 km2 (69 %) was covered by fine snow, < 1 km2 (<1 %) was covered by medium granular snow, and an insignificant area was covered by coarse snow.

The Met catalog, from Yale University Press, even explains the minute differences between metal tempering techniques: Some sword edges are sharpened to resemble "coarse, recrystallized snow," while others "can be compared to a fine accumulation of powdery snow".

At coarse scales, snow avalanches and debris flows are widespread and create disturbance treelines elevationally depressed well below the climate-controlled alpine treeline.

The basal layer is coarse-grained snow ice, on which a layer is of dense and close-grained depth hoar, and the top layer is new snow.

The definition is based on coarse simplifications of snow transport theories, and must be revised and improved to serve as an applicable tool for calculations of design snow loads on roofs in Norway.

"Since we got here, the snow's been coarse; it's been fine; it's been dirty; it's been clean; it's been sloppy; it's been hard; it's been balled".

There, as on pedestrian walkways in parks across the city, the Parks Department scatters coarse rock salt, which melts the snow but curtails sledding and irritates some dogs' paw pads.

They have a coarse outer coat that sheds rain and snow and a very fine, soft undercoat once prized for undergarments.

That figure is somewhat uncertain because the previous inventory used coarser resolution images that may have mistaken extensive snow cover for permanent ice, says Raymond Bradley, director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who was not involved in the project.