Relationships between snowfall density and solid  hydrometeors, based on measured size and fall speed, for snowpack modeling applications

Ishizaka, Masaaki; Motoyoshi, Hiroki; Yamaguchi, Satoru; Nakai, Sento; Shiina, Toru; Muramoto, Ken-ichiro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2831-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2831-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2831-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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21 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 21 Nov 2016

Relationships between snowfall density and solid hydrometeors, based on measured size and fall speed, for snowpack modeling applications

Masaaki Ishizaka, Hiroki Motoyoshi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Sento Nakai, Toru Shiina, and Ken-ichiro Muramoto

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RC1: 'Review of the paper tc-2016-68 by Ishizaka et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Jun 2016
RC2: 'Relationships between Snowfall Densities and the Main Types of Solid Hydrometeors Deduced from Measured Size and Fall Speed, for snowpack modeling applications', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Jun 2016
AC1: 'Responses to two reviewers' comments', Satoru Yamaguchi, 24 Aug 2016

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AR by Satoru Yamaguchi on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (23 Sep 2016) by Florent Dominé

AR by Satoru Yamaguchi on behalf of the Authors (03 Oct 2016) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Oct 2016) by Florent Dominé

AR by Satoru Yamaguchi on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2016)

Short summary

We measured the snowfall densities with a CCD camera, simultaneously observing the predominant snowfall types determined by the measured size and the fall speed. With a CCD camera, we obtain the quantitative relationships between snowfall densities and presumed density derived from the size and mass components. This suggests the possibility of estimating snowfall densities from the measured size and the fall speed data, and using them as the initial densities for a snowpack in a numerical model.