{"id":64,"date":"2010-05-24T02:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/shupe\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:27:43","slug":"growing-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/24\/growing-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/frosty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-65\" title=\"frosty\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/frosty-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/frosty-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/frosty.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Today as we began to install our equipment in the Mobile Science Facility, a fog bank rolled in.\u00a0 We watched it approach from the distance, engulf the Big House, and then eventually make it to us.\u00a0 It left its signature on many surfaces including this rope: feather-like ice crystals that result from riming on the upwind side.\u00a0\u00a0 Fogs have occurred every couple of days since I&#8217;ve been here.\u00a0 Riming on the surface, as well as direct vapor deposition (hoar frost) appear to contribute significantly to the total accumulation at the surface.\u00a0 One of the questions we&#8217;d like to answer with our project deals with exactly this issue:\u00a0 What is the partitioning of the total surface snow accumulation between 1)\u00a0 riming\/deposition, 2) the slow production of ice crystals from supercooled liquid clouds, and 3) the more aggressive snowfall experienced during storms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today as we began to install our equipment in the Mobile Science Facility, a fog bank rolled in.\u00a0 We watched it approach from the distance, engulf the Big House, and then eventually make it to us.\u00a0 It left its signature on many surfaces including this rope: feather-like ice crystals that result from riming on the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/24\/growing-ice\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 08:13:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}