The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) is an endangered marsupial restricted to boulder fields in the Australian Alps, where it hibernates under the snow during winter. Understanding its habitat requirements is essential for conservation, so we examine here ecological implications of the thermal consequences of maintaining water balance during the hibernation season. Hibernating mountain p...

A chamber was constructed within which snow crystals were grown on a string at various temperatures, relative humidities, and acetic acid gas phase mole fractions. The temperature, relative humidity, and acid mole fraction were measured for the first time at the point of crystal growth. Snow crystal morphological transition temperature shifts were recorded as a function of acid mole fraction, a...

This paper presents the results of snow cover monitoring studies in Liaoning Province, northeastern China, using MODIS data. Snow cover plays an important role in both the regional water balance and soil moisture properties during the early spring in northeastern China. In addition, heavy snowfalls commonly trigger hazards such as flooding, caused by rapid snow melt, or crop failure, resulting ...

The paper explains the issue of establishing a maritime domain cadastre and importance boundaries domain. Particular is given to clear definition concept in order make it what area can be declared why its spatial coverage. Legislation has tried establish as separate part cadastre, but not yet been achieved. Today, are entered land registers kept by municipal courts. authors consider important i...

Melt-freeze crusts often occur as a result of wet snow, rain or strong insolation. Past observations have revealed the formation of weak layers at their boundaries, even when the depth-averaged temperature gradient favours rounding. Research has, however, predominantly targeted temperature regimes dominated by kinetic growth. During the winter of 2007-2008 University of Calgary researchers unde...

Determining surface precipitation phase is required to properly correct precipitation gage data for wind effects, to determine the hydrologic response to a precipitation event, and for hydrologic modeling when rain will be treated differently from snow. In this paper we present a comparison of several methods for determining precipitation phase using 12 years of hourly precipitation, weather an...

In the present work, failure of a snow slab is analyzed by accounting Normal mode criteria. The analysis has been extended to include residual stress into the model (in addition to body forces). Intensity of crack energy release rate, and displacement components have been derived and their values have been estimated. The obtained results have been compared with the existing snow slab failure mo...