Assertion: glacier | /r/CapableOf | accumulate snow
Facets:
value: in the winter
type: TEMPORAL
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: at higher elevations
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: At higher elevations, glaciers accumulate snow, which eventually becomes compressed into ice.
text: In polar and high-altitude alpine regions, glaciers generally accumulate more snow in the winter than they lose in the summer from melting, evaporation, or calving.
text: We investigate glaciers along a 2000-km transect from Spiti Lahaul to Bhutan (75°E to 93°E), which includes glaciers that accumulate snow primarily during winter (western Himalayas) and during the summer monsoon (eastern Himalayas), but excludes complications of surging glaciers in the Karakoram and Kunlun regions where many glaciers appear to be anomalously stable or advancing ( 2 ).