Sentence examples for dry snow from inspiring English sources

Dry snow avalanches release by the failure of a weak layer.

One bright note was that the relatively dry snow spared power lines and generators.

One of these mechanisms is due to the very high albedo, or reflectivity of dry snow to solar radiation.

Pfeffer, W. T., Illangasekare, T. H. & Meier, M. F. Analysis and modelling of melt-water refreezing in dry snow.

Compared to dry snow avalanches, comparable (at similar velocities) shear and normal stresses seem to be higher in slushflows.

With even small amounts of solution, the snow hardness dropped to 60% of that of dry snow.

Utah can get paper-dry snow and Oregon-style wet snow; the same goes for everywhere.

Natural dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure at a weak snow layer.

The most dangerous snow avalanches start as a dry-snow, slab avalanche that is best described with a fracture mechanical approach.

Mountain glaciers also are classified as polar, subpolar, or temperate and their surfaces by the occurrence of dry-snow, percolation, saturation, and superimposed-ice zones, as for ice sheets.

Superimposed ice and soaked zones are found in the accumulation area; in higher areas the percolation zone is found, and in some local extreme areas the dry-snow zone occurs.