I love the snow , although in my city or country I have never been see snow.
Snow comes from accumulated moisture in the atmosphere . Have you ever seen snow like this ?
Did you know that the lump of ice is usually cut off from the glacier between 15 to 3 meters with a thickness of up to 10 feet. And more than 4000 meters below the freezing point, in the afternoon sun began to smooth the ice temperature (not melted).
Penitentes or Penitentes Nieves ("snow penitente shaped" , in Spanish), is the formation of snow found at high altitudes. Pinakel snow ice grows over all the areas covered glaciated and snow in the Andes Dry above 4000 m . Various sizes of snow from a few centimeters to more than 5 meters.
Lliboutry (is a glaciologist from the France-Chile) noted that the key climatic conditions for differential ablation that leads to the formation of Penitentes who explained that the dew point is always below freezing. And, snow will become fine, because the sublimation requires higher energy input than the melt.
Do you know about this phenomenon? The phenomenon of the penitentes is beautiful and amazing (:
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Yuph, I also hope it snows in our country. Maybe next time the snow could come to our country (:
ReplyDeletepenitentes? I just know what is penitentes . . O.o
ReplyDeleteyeah, mantap :D
ReplyDelete@ ladida : hoho , you must know ;)
ReplyDelete@ pradisz : thanks for comment :D
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