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![Snowflake](images/slider1.jpg)
Stellar dendrites are tree-like snow crystals that have branches upon branches.
![Snow Storm](images/slider2.jpg)
Doppler-on-Wheels scientists Karen Kosiba and Traeger Meyer brave winds gusting more than 50 miles per hour.
![Nature's Igloo](images/slider3.jpg)
A secret world, unseen to most humans, is alive beneath the surface of winter's snow.
![Snow Mountains](images/slider4.jpg)
At NSF's Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Colorado, scientists study fast-disappearing snowmelt: white gold for ecosystems and water resources.
![Snow Pit](images/slider5.jpg)
Scientists dig "snow pits" to study the bane of winter: deposits of dust-on-snow.
![Radiometer](images/radiometer-sm.jpg)
Snow gauges, operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, measure how much snow falls.
Credit: Scot Landolt, NCAR
![Winter Storm Chasing](images/pic01.jpg)
Atmospheric scientist Jim Steenburgh studies snow above Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah's Wasatch Range.
![Conifer's View](images/pic02.jpg)
Research at NSF's Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) links snowmelt with downstream water supplies.
Credit: NSF Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory/Jenny Park![Winter Ice](images/snowshoehare.jpg)
Tale of the spruce vs. the hare
Credit: NPS
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