The term "snow layer" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "The snow layer was surprisingly thick for so early in the winter season."
Temperature gradients between the top and bottom of the unconsolidated snow layer induce gas fractionation6.
Natural dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure at a weak snow layer.
Especially the variation of thermal properties and the capillary effect of snow layer are considered.
Generally, the snow layer fluctuation is considered to be correlated with the ground surface fluctuation.
It is both the non-uniform temperature distribution and complicated porous structure of snow layer that lead to the occurrence of CFR.
However, upon return of cold ambient temperatures, soils can freeze deeper and may experience more freeze thaw cycles due to the absence of a buffering snow layer.
Snow layers are the key to predicting avalanches.
As they drop into the sea, icebergs often roll over and lose their snow layers.
We recovered micrometeorites from surface snow layers near the French-Italian station CONCORDIA.
The traditional solution to examining snow layers is to dig a snow pit, hacking deep into the slope to reveal what lies beneath the surface.
Boeren said: "Higher altitudes entail greater risk of being trapped in snowstorms and snow layers covering pastures during several days, which in turn results in animals' starvation.
