Structure, specific surface area and thermal conductivity of the snowpack around Barrow, Alaska

F Domine, JC Gallet, J Bock… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of the snowpack near Barrow was studied in March–April 2009. Vertical
profiles of density, specific surface area (SSA) and thermal conductivity were measured on …

Aerodynamic roughness length of fresh snow

C Gromke, C Manes, B Walter, M Lehning… - Boundary-Layer …, 2011 - Springer
This study presents the results from a series of wind-tunnel experiments designed to
investigate the aerodynamic roughness length z 0 of fresh snow under no-drift conditions. A …

[HTML][HTML] Snow temperature changes within a seasonal snowpack and their relationship to turbulent fluxes of sensible and latent heat

SP Burns, NP Molotch, MW Williams… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Snow Temperature Changes within a Seasonal Snowpack and Their Relationship to Turbulent
Fluxes of Sensible and Latent Heat in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 15 Issue 1 (2014) …

Near‐surface ventilation as a key for modeling the thermal regime of coarse blocky rock glaciers

L Pruessner, M Phillips, D Farinotti… - Permafrost and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In a changing climate, ice‐rich permafrost features such as rock glaciers will experience
drastic changes. Modeling the heat transport through the blocky surface layer with its large …

Thermal tracing of retained meltwater in the lower accumulation area of the Southwestern Greenland ice sheet

C Charalampidis, D Van As, WT Colgan… - Annals of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We present in situ firn temperatures from the extreme 2012 melt season in the southwestern
lower accumulation area of the Greenland ice sheet. The upper 2.5 m of snow and firn was …

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

M Jafari, V Sharma, M Lehning - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This paper studies numerically the convection of water vapour in snowpacks using an
Eulerian–Eulerian two-phase approach. The convective water vapour transport in snow and …

Seasonal evolution of snow permeability under equi-temperature and temperature-gradient conditions

F Domine, S Morin, E Brun, M Lafaysse… - The …, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
The permeability (K) of snow to air flow affects the transfer of energy, water vapor and
chemical species between the snow and the atmosphere. Yet today little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Downscaling snow cover fraction data in mountainous regions based on simulated inhomogeneous snow ablation

HY Li, YQ He, XH Hao, T Che, J Wang, XD Huang - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
High-resolution snow distributions are essential for studying cold regions. However, the
temporal and spatial resolutions of current remote sensing snow maps remain limited …

Observations, theory, and modeling of the differential accumulation of Antarctic megadunes

R Dadic, R Mott, HJ Horgan… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic megadunes are characterized by significant spatial differences in accumulation
rate, with higher accumulation on the windward side and near‐zero accumulation on the lee …

Carbon monoxide as a tracer of gas transport in snow and other natural porous media

H Huwald, JS Selker, SW Tyler, M Calaf… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The movement of air in natural porous media is complex and challenging to measure. Yet
gas transport has important implications, for instance, for the evolution of the seasonal snow …