{"id":1022,"date":"2012-03-01T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2012-03-01T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:29:09","slug":"blowing-snow-in-the-alpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Blowing snow in the alpine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/culter.colorado.edu\/NWT\/videos\/videos.html\">fun videos<\/a> of blowing snow on Niwot Ridge from a couple of days ago. Winds can top 120 mph up there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/culter.colorado.edu\/NWT\/videos\/videos.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1028\" title=\"niwot_blowing_snow\" src=\"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/niwot_blowing_snow1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/niwot_blowing_snow1.png 398w, http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/niwot_blowing_snow1-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blowing snow is an important physical process that shapes ecosystem function in the alpine tundra. Here&#8217;s a figure from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/doi\/full\/10.1641\/0006-3568(2004)054%5B0111%3ATLCAMF%5D2.0.CO%3B2\">good overview<\/a>\u00a0of alpine ecosystems:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/doi\/full\/10.1641\/0006-3568(2004)054%5B0111%3ATLCAMF%5D2.0.CO%3B2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1034\" title=\"mesotopo_model\" src=\"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mesotopo_model1-450x354.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mesotopo_model1-450x354.gif 450w, http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mesotopo_model1-300x236.gif 300w, http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mesotopo_model1.gif 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mesotopographic model developed by\u00a0Billings (1973). Alpine plant communities are formed by the spatial gradients created by snow cover, which is generated by wind exposure and topographic position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some fun videos of blowing snow on Niwot Ridge from a couple of days ago. Winds can top 120 mph up there. Blowing snow is an important physical process that shapes ecosystem function in the alpine tundra. Here&#8217;s a figure from a good overview\u00a0of alpine ecosystems: &nbsp; The mesotopographic model developed by\u00a0Billings (1973). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}