Field guide to snow

• Verfasst von: Sturm, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Field guide to snow
• Verf.angabe: Matthew Sturm
• Verlagsort: Fairbanks, AK
• Verlag: University of Alaska Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: vii, 192 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-60223-414-7
• ISBN: 978-1-60223-415-4
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sturm, Matthew: Field guide to snow. - Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2020] |(DLC)2020003818
• RVK-Notation: RB 10375
• K10plus-PPN: 1700275208

Abstract

"Over my career I have led more than 30 snow expeditions, taught snow science in the classroom at the undergraduate and graduate level, and run more than a dozen field method classes all over the U.S. In the field with my students, we have worked shoulder-to-shoulder in snow pits measuring the density, grain size, and stratigraphy of the snow pack. In that setting I have tried to teach people how to read in the snow the story of the winter. Most beginners at first have trouble seeing the story: it is all just white and the same. But with time, and a little guidance, the winter world has opened up for them. That is what this book is about: just a little guidance for those who might not get a chance to dig a snow pit with me, but who want to know more about the snow"--