Measurement of the physical properties of the snowpack

NJ Kinar, JW Pomeroy - Reviews of Geophysics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews measurement techniques and corresponding devices used to determine
the physical properties of the seasonal snowpack from distances close to the ground …

Remote sensing, hydrological modeling and in situ observations in snow cover research: A review

C Dong - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Snow is an important component of the hydrological cycle. As a major part of the cryosphere,
snow cover also represents a valuable terrestrial water resource. In the context of climate …

Black-carbon reduction of snow albedo

OL Hadley, TW Kirchstetter - Nature Climate Change, 2012 - nature.com
Climate models indicate that the reduction of surface albedo caused by black-carbon
contamination of snow contributes to global warming and near-worldwide melting of ice,. In …

Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …

Changing Arctic snow cover: A review of recent developments and assessment of future needs for observations, modelling, and impacts

S Bokhorst, SH Pedersen, L Brucker, O Anisimov… - Ambio, 2016 - Springer
Snow is a critically important and rapidly changing feature of the Arctic. However, snow-
cover and snowpack conditions change through time pose challenges for measuring and …

Density, specific surface area, and correlation length of snow measured by high‐resolution penetrometry

M Proksch, H Löwe… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Precise measurements of snow structural parameters are crucial to understand the formation
of snowpacks by deposition and metamorphism and to characterize the stratigraphy for …

Advances in understanding and parameterization of small-scale physical processes in the marine Arctic climate system: a review

T Vihma, R Pirazzini, I Fer, IA Renfrew… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
The Arctic climate system includes numerous highly interactive small-scale physical
processes in the atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean. During and since the International Polar …

A multiphysical ensemble system of numerical snow modelling

M Lafaysse, B Cluzet, M Dumont, Y Lejeune… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
Physically based multilayer snowpack models suffer from various modelling errors. To
represent these errors, we built the new multiphysical ensemble system ESCROC …

Influence of grain shape on light penetration in snow

Q Libois, G Picard, JL France, L Arnaud… - The …, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
The energy budget and the photochemistry of a snowpack depend greatly on the
penetration of solar radiation in snow. Below the snow surface, spectral irradiance …

3-D image-based numerical computations of snow permeability: links to specific surface area, density, and microstructural anisotropy

N Calonne, C Geindreau, F Flin, S Morin… - The …, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
We used three-dimensional (3-D) images of snow microstructure to carry out numerical
estimations of the full tensor of the intrinsic permeability of snow (K). This study was …