Sentence examples for snow patch from inspiring English sources

In a pocket meadow, optimistic teenagers were snowboarding on a shrunken July snow patch.

A snow patch had melted, exposing an outcrop that still contained evidence of features from its sedimentary past.

Established in 1907, the Harvard Forest resembles a regular forest, but snowshoeing through, you soon begin to notice the little yellow flags planted in a snow patch, the metal measurement bands around the trees, the fence around a stand of saplings to protect them from the moose that have come back to Massachusetts, not in stray pairs but in herds.

d− 1 °C− 1, respectively, were found to be appropriate for a first order approximation of snow patch melt dynamics.

In terms of peak daily water discharge, snow patch melting produces about 5 15 cm w.e. per day, comparable to rain rates during regional typhoons.

We analyzed the snowpack energy and mass balance during the winter of 2010/11 in a Deep Snow Patch (DSP), and in the Bulan valley experiment area (BVEA), where both windswept locations and lee-side (deep snowpack) locations were examined.

As the snow patches get smaller, the tracks became more difficult to follow.

He found only a few, isolated snow patches in shaded areas, a drastic difference from what we encountered.

The notes from the company I travelled with had hinted at the unpredictable weather: "Early in the season there may be snow patches and snowshoes may have to be used".

Soon, under a canopy of aspen, spruce and fir trees, we were scouring the terrain, digging into the soil, looking between branches, over logs and around melting snow patches.

Outside, beyond the gleeful bonging and beeping of the 2,000 slot machines, an ultramodern racetrack is being groomed for another night of Thoroughbred betting by blue-collar commuters from Ohio searching for merciful odds along a riverfront dotted with snow patches and abandoned factories.