Snow Sintering
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| '''[[Snow Sintering]]''' is when snow cyrstals lose their points due to molecular motion, '''[[wind]]''', and direct pressure. Physically breaking the snow crystals, for instance stomping on them or disturbing them with a shovel, will produce the same effect. The crystal arms are broken and then rounded grains fuse by freezing into larger crystals in a process called sintering. | '''[[Snow Sintering]]''' is when snow cyrstals lose their points due to molecular motion, '''[[wind]]''', and direct pressure. Physically breaking the snow crystals, for instance stomping on them or disturbing them with a shovel, will produce the same effect. The crystal arms are broken and then rounded grains fuse by freezing into larger crystals in a process called sintering. | ||
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Revision as of 11:57, 3 August 2010
Snow Sintering is when snow cyrstals lose their points due to molecular motion, wind, and direct pressure. Physically breaking the snow crystals, for instance stomping on them or disturbing them with a shovel, will produce the same effect. The crystal arms are broken and then rounded grains fuse by freezing into larger crystals in a process called sintering.
Also see
Ice Particle Snowflakes Solid Liquid Vapor
Reference:
- HydroWiki [1]
- Sintering in HyrdroWiki: [2]
- Ice crystal discovery is good news for avalanche prediction. January 2002. [3]
- Settlement National Avalanche Center [4]
External Link:
- A Review of Sintering in Seasonal Snow. December 1997 [5]
- Jan Blackford Edinburgh University Insights into ice and snow sintering from low temperature scanning electron mircoscopy [6]
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