Every snowflake is unique due to the vagaries of temperature, moisture, wind and weather in all environs cold enough for snowflakes to be created. In all the time man has ever encountered snow, the exact way on how snowflakes melt has never been properly determined until now.
A new video features a visualization of the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere, developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A better understanding of how snow melts can help scientists recognize the signature in radar signals of heavier, wetter snow -- the kind that breaks power lines and tree limbs -- and could be a step toward improving predictions of this hazard.
Snowflake research is one of many ways that NASA studies the frozen regions of Earth, collectively known as the cryosphere.
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