Wind Tunnel Experiments: Influence of Erosion and Deposition on Wind-Packing of New Snow

Wind sometimes creates a hard, wind-packed layer at the surface of a snowpack. The formation of such wind crusts was observed during wind tunnel experiments with combined SnowMicroPen and Microsoft Kinect sensors. The former provides the hardness of new and wind-packed snow and the latter spatial sn...

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Main Authors: Christian G. Sommer, Michael Lehning, Charles Fierz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2018.00004/full