Sentence examples for snow grains from inspiring English sources

Smaller-sized graupels are generally referred to as snow grains.

There could even be some snow grains or soft hail mixed in at times if activity is strong enough.

They may contain some small hail or snow grains as they pass, in addition to briefly heavy rain.

Late in the game, Emrick said the wind was whipping across the field, stinging him and Olczyk with snow, or perhaps "snow grains," the little grains of ice whose appearance Olczyk noted several times.

Measurements of the density of the snow mantle and of the shape and size of the snow grains show that the snow produced is equivalent to 12-day-old natural snow or snow drifted by wind.

Scientists have generally attributed that darkening to larger, slightly less white snow grains caused by warmer temperatures.

For cloud-free pixels that are determined to be snow-covered an algorithm for retrieval of snow grain size and impurity concentration has been constructed.

These include (i) a cloud mask, (ii) a snow/sea ice discriminator, (iii) algorithms for retrieval of snow properties (snow grain size and impurities) and (iv) surface temperature of snow/ice and open ocean water.

Scambos, T. A., Haran, T. M., Fahnestock, M. A., Painter, T. H. & Bohlander, J. MODIS-based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) data sets: Continent-wide surface morphology and snow grain size.

But Dumont and her colleagues have found that, since 2009, there has been a darkening that cannot be explained by larger snow grain size alone.

(Beyond the snow line, ice grains glom together to form gas giants, such as Jupiter and Saturn).