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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-371-2016
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15 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 15 Feb 2016

Intercomparison of snow density measurements: bias, precision, and vertical resolution

Martin Proksch, Nick Rutter, Charles Fierz, and Martin Schneebeli

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Short summary
Density is a fundamental property of porous media such as snow. During the MicroSnow Davos 2014 workshop, different approaches (box-, wedge- and cylinder-type density cutters, micro-computed tomography) to measure snow density were applied in a controlled laboratory environment and in the field. In general, results suggest that snow densities measured by different methods agree within 9 %. However, the density profiles resolved by the measurement methods differed considerably.
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