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Wind tunnel experiments: cold-air pooling and atmospheric decoupling above a melting snow patch
... (melting) snow surface and the near-surface atmosphere and (ii) cold-air pooling in topographic ...perennial snow- fields to ...the melting snow patch. The comparison between a flat ...
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Brief communication: Light-absorbing impurities can reduce the density of melting snow
... dry snow increases due to gravitational settling, wind packing, sintering, and melt– freeze ...and snow temperature. The density of snow is also affected by water vapour diffusion in the snow ...
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The effect of snow/sea ice type on the response of albedo and light penetration depth ( -folding depth) to increasing black carbon
... of snow/sea ice vary with age and by the processes they were formed, giving charac- teristic types of snow and sea ...the snow and sea ice type and the thickness of the snow or sea ...of ...
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Influence of the melting temperature on the measurement of the mass concentration and size distribution of black carbon in snow
... method, snow samples are melted and aerosolized using a ...in snow (Schwarz et ...the melting of snow/ice samples is a common procedure in the three methods above, uncer- tainties due to this ...
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Case study of spatial and temporal variability of snow cover, grain size, albedo and radiative forcing in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain snowpack derived from imaging spectroscopy
... mdl snow is modeled using the radiative transfer code DISORT (Stamnes et ...optical snow grain size under snowmelt conditions (Painter et ...the snow grain size ...of melting snow would ...
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Black carbon in snow in the upper Himalayan Khumbu Valley, Nepal: observations and modeling of the impact on snow albedo, melting, and radiative forcing
... the snow as predicted by Warren and Wiscombe (1980), we attempt to quantify the average impact of BC on the snow albedo for typical conditions at ...the snow between 0 and 300 ...of melting ...
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Solid hydrometeor classification and riming degree estimation from pictures collected with a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera
... of melting particles according to the binary dry/melting snow classifier were identified as MS by the HC- 2DVD ...dry/wet snow classifica- ...as melting snow and a reduced ...
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Importance of snow to global precipitation
... if snow is contiguous with rain in a vertical column, then the rain is formed from the melting ...model-derived snow melting rate on each level in the vertical was multiplied by the model ...
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Screening for snow/snowmelt in SNPP VIIRS aerosol optical depth algorithm
... 2013). Snow reflectance properties vary significantly with snow grain size (Wiscombe and War- ren, 1980; Warren, 1982) and impurities in or on the snow (Doherty et ...the snow ages, and ...
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Erosion potential of snow cover in the Czech Republic
... of snow melt leads to erosion and development of serrated ravines (ØYGARDEN, ...of snow melting erosion risks is closely depended on climate change (number of ice days, arctic days, winter ...
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Snow accumulation/melting model (SAMM) for integrated use in regional scale landslide early warning systems
... by snow melting that were not detected by the conventional warning ...where snow is an exceptional phenomenon (and oftentimes is mixed with rain) the use of SAMM provided limited ...
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Evaluation of air–soil temperature relationships simulated by land surface models during winter across the permafrost region
... the snow insulation effect. For the latter we analyse the impact of snow depth on the dif- ference between near-surface soil and air ...by snow depth? What is the range of the simulated air–soil ...
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Effects of Agrobacterial rol Genes on the Thermodynamic and Structural Features of Starches Extracted from Potato Microtubers
... starch melting temperature from rolC tubers evidently depended on numerous dis- turbances in the structure of crystalline ...rule, melting of crystalline lamellae starts with a disinte- gration of defects ...
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Lezine_HonorsThesisFinal.pdf
... in snow-cover detection accuracy, particularly for mountain ranges in the Northern Hemisphere during spring and summer, compared to earlier versions of MOD10A1 (Riggs et ...no snow, even when snow ...
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Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation
... From Table 2 it is clear that excluding SMB data from melt zones clearly improves the fit between A06 map and the ob- servations with RMS relative difference of 28% instead of 35%. We further investigate here the ...
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Strength of forest-albedo feedback in mid-Holocene climate simulations
... simpler snow albedo parameterisation tend to show higher albedo values under snow conditions than more complex models that explicitly take into account the influence of vegetation on the ...the snow ...
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Early warning of snow-caused disasters in pastoral areas on the Tibetan Plateau
... in snow disaster warning, relief, and ...of snow dis- asters have been ...of snow disasters, are needed to validate the prediction of disaster grades and to improve the ...
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Spectral reflectance of solar light from dirty snow: a simple theoretical model and its validation
... the snow albedo as the function of snow grain size, soot concentration, and soot mass absorption coefficient is ...of snow pollution on snow ...in snow is proposed. The equations ...
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Now you see it, now you don't: a case study of ephemeral snowpacks and soil moisture response in the Great Basin, USA
... predicting snow ephemerality under varying ...rain– snow transitions limit snow accumulation, (2) snowpack ab- lation from melt and sublimation, and (3) wind scour and re- ...increased snow ...
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Short-term velocity variations at three rock glaciers and their relationship with meteorological conditions
... insulating snow cover (light blue) are both estimated from individual iButtons next to the GPS station (the vertical blue lines indicate the start of insulating snow cover at the individual iButtons and the ...
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