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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2831-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2831-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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
Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Nagaoka, 940-0821, Japan
Hiroki Motoyoshi
Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Nagaoka, 940-0821, Japan
Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Nagaoka, 940-0821, Japan
Sento Nakai
Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Nagaoka, 940-0821, Japan
Toru Shiina
Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Toyama College, Toyama, 933-0293, Japan
Ken-ichiro Muramoto
Professor Emeritus, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan
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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.
We measured the snowfall densities with a CCD camera, simultaneously observing the predominant...
