Remote sensing of the cryosphere is an important topic of modern environmental studies. This is due to the fact that snow and ice cover large portions of the Northern hemisphere in winter and also snow permanently presents almost over the whole of Antarctica, which is the fifth-largest continent almost twice of Australia. The snow also permanently presents over Greenland. It has been found that a million years ago, frosty Greenland was ice-free, its bare bedrock exposed for 280,000 years. It has been confirmed that the surface ice in Greenland is more variable than once thought which does not bode well for its future stability in a warming world. The melting of ice and snow in Greenland and also at other areas of the globe is accelerated due to an increase in air temperature, snow pollution, and rain frequency (also in the areas, where liquid precipitation has not been observed before) leading to various natural hazards.The main subject of this Research Topic is the presentation of m
ridge parkway, you are 20-inch snowfall totals all day long. because it s going to be cold enough there. boston, long island, especially eastern long island, south of toms river, new jersey, all the way down to wilmington and east of annapolis, that s an all-rain snow, not cold enough to make any significant snow there. but 20 degrees tomorrow morning here, if we get a little bit of rain, that s going to make even more problems, chris. what do you see as the shredding snowman, snowball factor so far, with the snow density? reporter: so far we re at about 8 to 10 inches per 1 inch of water. i think later today, we could get all the way down to 7, which means right here where i m standing tomorrow morning, there will be 15 inches of snow on the ground. that wasn t the most helpful answer, but thank you very much for the accumulation score. we ll be back with you in a little bit. this massive nor easter is forcing lots of schools to close. a lot of them made the decision yesterday,