Snow Accumulation and Melting
Analysis of snow accumulation and snow melting in a young mountain spruce and beech stand in the Orlické hory Mts , Czech Republic
... evaluates snow accumulation and the intensity of snow melting in a young spruce and beech ...of snow accumulation and melting was markedly affected or disturbed by the ...
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Snow accumulation/melting model (SAMM) for integrated use in regional scale landslide early warning systems
... several snow accumulation/melting models have been pro- posed, and they can be grouped into two main ...the snow- ...perature, snow covered ...
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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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Recent precipitation decrease across the western Greenland ice sheet percolation zone
... in accumulation rates over the ice sheet due to the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship – warmer air has a higher saturation vapor pressure, potentially leading to more precipitation (Box et ...Greenland snow ...
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Subgrid parameterization of snow distribution at a Mediterranean site using terrestrial photography
... various accumulation melting cycles throughout the year and a large spatial hetero- geneity of the snow ...by snow accumulation–depletion curves ...local snow ADCs at a ...
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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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Sea ice CO 2dynamics and air–ice CO2 fluxes during the Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) experiment – Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica
... and snow thickness were sampled: one had little snow accumulation (from 8 to 25 cm) and larger temperature and salinity variations than the sec- ond site, where the snow cover was up to 38 cm ...
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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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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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Brief communication: Light-absorbing impurities can reduce the density of melting snow
... seasonal snow, snow melting is an important part of the natural annual hydrological ...variability. Snow albedo de- pends primarily on the grain size, wetness, impurities in the near-surface ...
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Very old firn air linked to strong density layering at Styx Glacier, coastal Victoria Land, East Antarctica
... Bubbles trapped in ice cores preserve ancient air and allow direct measurements of the atmospheric composition in the past (e.g., Petit et al., 1999). However, it is difficult to obtain air samples over the past several ...
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Influence of the melting temperature on the measurement of the mass concentration and size distribution of black carbon in snow
... in snow, samples should be melted at low temperature over a short ...The melting temperature experiment showed that it is possible that heating to a high temperature causes a signif- icant reduction in BC ...
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Moisture transport in observations and reanalyses as a proxy for snow accumulation in East Antarctica
... of the nearby Lambert Glacier, but it is unrelated: the timing of the rise is off by a decade. Radiosondes at Syowa Sta- tion report an increase in the onshore moisture flux that is stronger than the reanalyses. Syowa ...
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Snow Accumulation and Depletion Pattern of an Eastern Himalayan River Basin
... mountain snow basins, a change in climate will likely cause a change in the basin snow cover ...extent. Snow cover depletion curve (SDC) indicates the snow coverage on each day of the melt and ...
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Assessment and Modeling of Snow Melting Impacts in the French Mediterranean Region - Application to the Var catchment, France
... the snow melting process in catchment hydrological ...by snow melting from upstream of the catchment has significant contribution to the flood discharge recorded at ...the snow ...
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A Survey on Ecological City Trends
... to melting the natural glaciers and reduction in the snow of earth’s poles as well as increased level of seas globally, global warming, subject of crisis for water supply and drought in different points ...
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Solid hydrometeor classification and riming degree estimation from pictures collected with a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera
... Multiple solid hydrometeor classification schemes have been introduced in the literature (e.g., Korolev and Sussman, 2000; Lindqvist et al., 2012; Grazioli et al., 2014) and it is often difficult to find an equivalence ...
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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
... observed snow height shows for several in- stances strong increases, while no simultaneous precipitation was recorded as already described by Shrestha et ...observed snow height was constructed and employed ...
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Event-driven deposition of snow on the Antarctic Plateau: analyzing field measurements with SNOWPACK
... 8. Snow profile on 10 December 2008 as simulated with SNOWPACK using, from left to right, either measured new snow density as input (“ρ n,measured ”), or an initial snow density of 250 kg m −3 (“ρ ...
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Seasonal evolution of the effective thermal conductivity of the snow and the soil in high Arctic herb tundra at Bylot Island, Canada
... cus simulated a melting episode in late September, giving the basal layer a high thermal conductivity. This is consistent with our observations of a melt–freeze relic in the basal depth hoar layer. However, Crocus ...
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