Snow accumulation
Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years
... The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet and has the potential to raise global sea level by about 58.3 m if melted completely (IPCC, 2013). Even small changes in its volume ...
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Observation of the process of snow accumulation on the Antarctic Plateau by time lapse laser scanning
... Abstract. Snow accumulation is the main positive compo- nent of the mass balance in ...the accumulation pro- cess itself is relatively poor, although many complex phe- nomena occur between snowfall ...
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A 2000-year annual record of snow accumulation rates for Law Dome, East Antarctica
... The accumulation series was compared with the annual δ 18 O isotope ratio at the site over the period of 174–2012 ...high accumulation sites (Frezzotti et ...by snow accumulation timing, ...
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Snow accumulation variability derived from radar and firn core data along a 600 km transect in Adelie Land, East Antarctic plateau
... However, all these methods yield localised data and thus suffer from poor spatial representativeness. On the other hand, ground penetrating radar (GPR), offers the possibility to determine accumulation ...
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Simulation of snow accumulation and melt in needleleaf forest environments
... of snow processes, the Cold Regions Hydro- logical Model (CRHM) was developed to simulate the four season hydrological cycle in cold ...to snow in open and forest environments, as well as account for losses ...
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Modelling snow accumulation on Greenland in Eemian, glacial inception, and modern climates in a GCM
... the snow accumulation rate and surface mass balance (SMB) on the ice sheet and, ultimately, its ...of snow at the ice sheet surface. In this paper, we present a new snow scheme imple- mented ...
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Analysis of snow accumulation and snow melting in a young mountain spruce and beech stand in the Orlické hory Mts , Czech Republic
... the snow water equivalent in both compared stands can be considered to be the most important and some- what unexpected finding from depth/weight meas- urements in the period of snow accumulation at ...
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Importance of maximum snow accumulation for summer low flows in humid catchments
... on snow accumulation, while warming from April to June rather affected snowmelt onset, dynamics and melt-out (point in time at which all snowmelt out of the catchment) (Knowles et ...
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LiDAR measurement of seasonal snow accumulation along an elevation gradient in the southern Sierra Nevada, California
... However, as other researchers have noted, it is also diffi- cult to identify the effects of specific storms on snowpack ab- lation due to the variability of atmospheric conditions close to the Earth’s surface (Lundquist ...
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Snow Accumulation and Depletion Pattern of an Eastern Himalayan River Basin
... seasonal snow are important variables in snow hydrological ...any snow-dominated catchment, snow accumulation and ablation patterns vary with elevation ...average snow ...
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The sensitivity of modeled snow accumulation and melt to precipitation phase methods across a climatic gradient
... into snow and rain, yet little is known about how uncertainty in precipitation phase propagates into variability in simulated snow accumulation and ...between snow and rain, it is impera- tive ...
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Assessing Snow Accumulation Patterns and Changes on the Patagonian Icefields
... of snow accumulation on the west side relative to the east ...in snow accumulation, Mernild et al. (2016b) indicated that snow accumulation at the same elevation is higher at the ...
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Forest impacts on snow accumulation and ablation across an elevation gradient in a temperate montane environment
... the snow zone has little resilience to a warming ...influence snow accumulation and ...reduced snow accumulation at elevations where snowfall shifts to a rain–snow mix, and ...
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Retrospective forecasts of the upcoming winter season snow accumulation in the Inn headwaters (European Alps)
... Abstract. This article presents analyses of retrospective sea- sonal forecasts of snow accumulation. Re-forecasts with 4 months’ lead time from two coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (NCEP ...
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Determination of snowmaking efficiency on a ski slope from observations and modelling of snowmaking events and seasonal snow accumulation
... (MM) snow is now generalized in ski resorts and represents the most com- mon method of adaptation for mitigating the impact of a lack of snow on ...tween snow conditions and the ski industry’s ...
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Moisture transport in observations and reanalyses as a proxy for snow accumulation in East Antarctica
... The accumulation can also be inferred from the conver- gence of moisture blown from the oceans onto the conti- nent. To compute Antarctica’s atmospheric moisture bud- get, one needs vertical wind and moisture ...
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Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation
... high accumulation, it is not surprising that A06 map shows larger accumulation in the megadune field South of Dome C than around although the accumulation is probably lower there (Courville et ...
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Snow accumulation and compaction derived from GPR data near Ross Island, Antarctica
... The snow pit logged at L2 in 2008 is approximately located at the centre of Fig. 3c. The yellow arrow corresponds to the dust layer depth and coincides with a horizon which is more undulating than other horizons ...
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Adaptation of the Integrated Nitrogen Model for Catchments (INCA) to seasonally snow covered catchments
... of snow pack and soil frost are included in the COUP model (Jansson and Karlberg, 2001) for simulations of hydrology and nitrogen and carbon ...extensive snow accumulation during ...seasonal ...
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Spatially extensive estimates of annual accumulation in the dry snow zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet determined from radar altimetry
... annual snow accumulation rates de- rived from observations made by the ASIRAS airborne radar altimeter along a 200 km transect of the dry snow region on the western slope of the Greenland Ice ...
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