Field notes

Short pieces on snow, ice, ground and weather in cold places. 16 notes.

• Sound carries further on cold nights2024-10-07 · weather
• Frost heave is not water expanding2024-09-19 · ground
• What actually sets the tree line2024-09-01 · plants
• The albedo cliff2024-08-14 · snow
• Supercooled fog and instrument icing2024-07-27 · weather
• Why valley bottoms are colder2024-07-09 · weather
• Aufeis: ice that grows in layers all winter2024-06-21 · ice
• Using lichen growth as a rough clock2024-06-03 · plants
• Wind slab and the seam you cannot see2024-05-16 · snow
• Telling hoarfrost from rime2024-04-29 · ice
• Ptarmigan and the cost of being white2024-04-11 · birds
• Permafrost responds slowly, then not slowly2024-03-25 · ground
• Anchor ice and why rivers freeze from the bottom2024-03-08 · ice
• The subnivean space2024-02-19 · snow
• Frost flowers on new sea ice2024-02-02 · ice
• Why snow squeaks below about -10C2024-01-14 · snow