SNOW

Snow, an amazing natural phenomenon : my love as warm snow

Febdian rusydi (rijsuniversiteit groningen)
At this time in aurope and the northern regions of the earth the middle of
winter. One of interesting phenomenon of the moment winter is snow. Be
unique because the ice crystals are soft and white as cotton it just
comes naturally in the land of the four seasons on in places that are very
high as jayawijaya mountain peaks on papuan. Why snow naturally could
not present in tropical regions such as our country ?
The process of the formatin for snow
To answer that, we can start the procces of occurence of snow. Starting
from water vapor that gather in earths atmosphere, the water vapor
cools to the point of condensation,then rotate to form clouds. At the
beginning of the formation of clouds, its mass is much smaller than the
mass of the air so that the clouds float in the air just like wooden beams
which floats on the surface of the water. However, after the steam
collection continues to grow and merge into the clouds, its mass also
increases, resulting in a when air was not able to hold him again. The
clouds broke and the water particles ever fallen to earth.
 Water particles that fall it was pure water(not doped by other particles).
Pure water does not freeze in temperatures of 0 degress celcius, because at
the temperature of liquid phase changes to solid. To make pure water
freezing temperature required is lower than 0 degress celcius, this also
happens when we menjerang water,water evaporates when the
temperature above 100 degress celcius because at 100 degress celcius is
the change of phase of a substance,usually added special substances, for
example, salt is used to accelerate the phase of melting ice to water.
Usually the air temperature just below the clouds is below 0 degress
celcius (air temperature depending on the height above sea level).but,the
low temperature alone is not enough to create snow. When particles of
such pure water in contact with air, then the pure water of distortion by
other particles. There are certain particles that function accelerates the
freezing phase, so that pure water is rapidly becoming the ice crystals.
Pollutan particles involved in this process is called nukleator,in addition to
functioning as the freezing phase accelerator, also the adhesive antaruap
water. So the water particles(which are not pure anymore) joined together
with other water particles to form large crystal.
If the air temperature is not to melt the ice crystals,ice crystals falling to
the ground, and heres the snow!. If not, the ice crystals melt and get to the
soil in the form of rain water.
In many cases in the world, the process of the decline of the rain always
starts with the snow some when she felt from the clouds, but then melted
away when crossing the hot air.sometime ,if the temperature is very low,
the ice crystals can form small balls of ice and sleet. Bandung city
included relatively high air temperatures than areas that are currently
axpreriencing winter.
The unique structure of the snow
Snow crystals has a unique structure,no snow crystals that have the
same shape in this worldis like a fingerprint imagine,the snows been
coming down since the earth was created up to now,and none of the snow
has the same crystals structure!
The uniqueness of the snow is white in colour. If its snowing, the expanse
of the earth as white, clean,and seemed to be glowing.this is due to the
crystals structure of the snow allows snow to reflect all the colors to all
directions in the same amount, then came the white color. The same
phenomenon can also be seen when we see white sand, salt chunk,chunk
of sugar,mist,cloud,and white paint.
In addition,the decline in snow provide warmth,this can be understood
from the conccept of the effective temperature,effective temperatureis
the temperaturefelt by our skin, is influenced by three physical
quantities :the measured temperature,the speed of movement of the
air,and the air humidity. Effective temperature is typically used to
determine the comfort zone. On the beach,the measured temperature can
be high,but due to the high winds we still feel comfortable. By the time