Again these were then looked up, and whiteout was applied to everything but the bold words. All of these also had certain words printed bold and referring to further definitions. the next definitions that were looked up were ‘observer’, ‘horizon’, ‘snow cover’, ‘overcast’, ‘snow blink’, ‘light’, ‘snow’, ‘blowing snow’. This because in a whiteout “only very dark, nearby objects can be seen”.Īfter the first definition, the instructions from the glossary are followed i.e. The definitions were found by starting with the definition of whiteout (seen above) and applying whiteout to all but the words that are printed bold (those words are referring to other definitions in the glossary). Textimages were made by applying whiteout to definitions from the Glossary of Meteorology. This book is based on a combination of the definition of meteorological whiteout and the product of whiteout used to correct texts. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language) Whiteout: A fluid, usually white, that dries quickly and is applied to printed matter to cover mistakes. Whiteout occurs over an unbroken snow cover and beneath a uniformly overcast sky, when, with the aid of the snow blink effect, the light from the sky is about equal to that from the snow surface. Neither shadows, horizon, nor clouds are discernible sense of depth and orientation is lost only very dark, nearby objects can be seen. Whiteout: An atmospheric optical phenomenon in which the observer appears to be engulfed in a uniformly white glow.
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