Snow farming: conserving snow over the summer season

Grünewald, Thomas; Wolfsperger, Fabian; Lehning, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-385-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-385-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-385-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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31 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2018

Snow farming: conserving snow over the summer season

Thomas Grünewald, Fabian Wolfsperger, and Michael Lehning

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Final revised paper (published on 31 Jan 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 08 Jun 2017)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of manuscript tc-2017-93', Jakob Garvelmann, 08 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer 1: J. Garvelmann', Thomas Grünewald, 13 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Review: Snow farming: Conserving snow over the summer season', Bo Nordell, 24 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to reviewer 2: B. Nordell', Thomas Grünewald, 13 Sep 2017
EC1: 'Extension of interactive discussion', Guillaume Chambon, 24 Aug 2017
RC3: 'review of tc-2017-93', Steven Fassnacht, 06 Oct 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to reviewer 3: S. Fassnacht', Thomas Grünewald, 08 Nov 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Thomas Grünewald on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Nov 2017) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Thomas Grünewald on behalf of the Authors (24 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Snow farming is the conservation of snow during summer. Large snow piles are covered with a sawdust insulation layer, reducing melt and guaranteeing a specific amount of available snow in autumn, independent of the weather conditions. Snow volume changes in two heaps were monitored, showing that about a third of the snow was lost. Model simulations confirmed the large effect of the insulation on energy balance and melt. The model can now be used as a tool to examine future snow-farming projects.