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14:03 Oct 28, 2011 |
German to English translations [PRO] Science - Environment & Ecology / Different types of snow, one is missing | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Kim Metzger Mexico Local time: 02:32 | ||||||
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4 +2 | rotten snow |
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4 +1 | depth hoar |
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3 | sugar snow |
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2 | quick snow |
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rotten snow Explanation: der Tiefenreif • depth hoar (der Tiefenreif). Consider also: temperature gradient snow (der Schwimmschnee), rotten snow (der Schwimmschnee). ... Depth hoar otherwise known as rotten snow is a deadly weak layer. Getting stuck a lot is a good sign that the snowpack may be unstable. http://www.fsavalanche.org/Default.aspx?ContentId=13&LinkId=... Depth hoar: Imagine you're a snowflake near the ground. The Earth warms you up, and you start to sweat. (Okay, okay... it's not sweat, but you do pump water vapor into the air spaces between your lovely, fluffy crystals.) This vapor migrates to colder snowflakes and recrystallizes. They get larger, but weaker, and the result is a layer of elaborate but weakly bonded crystals called "depth hoar." http://whyfiles.org/105avalanche/3.html |
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