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NickB79

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16. How fast does sherbert run again?

Reply to DCBob (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 12:44 PM

Jul 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112720122

On July 16, they surveyed an ice sheet in the northwestern region of the land mass, located at an altitude of 1,500 meters. They found the surface of the ice had melted and become "like sherbet" as temperatures reached 2 degrees. They also observed rainfall of around 10 centimeters over a three-day period.

Teruo Aoki, senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency who took part in the observations for three weeks, expressed his surprise. "I had not expected rain to fall there," he said. "The melting was greater than expected."

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