Measurement of specific surface area of fresh solid precipitation particles in heavy snowfall regions of Japan

Yamaguchi, Satoru; Ishizaka, Masaaki; Motoyoshi, Hiroki; Nakai, Sent; Vionnet, Vincent; Aoki, Teruo; Yamashita, Katsuya; Hashimoto, Akihiro; Hachikubo, Akihiro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2713-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

The Cryosphere, 13, 2713–2732, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2713-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

The Cryosphere, 13, 2713–2732, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2713-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article 16 Oct 2019

Research article | 16 Oct 2019

Measurement of specific surface area of fresh solid precipitation particles in heavy snowfall regions of Japan

Satoru Yamaguchi et al.

Data sets

4 winters measurement data of specific surface area of solid precipitation particles including meteorological data and micro photo in Nagaoka S. Yamaguchi, M. Ishizaka, H. Motoyoshi, S. Nakai, V. Vionnet, T. Aoki, K. Yamashita, A. Hashimoto, and A. Hachikubo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907148

Short summary

The specific surface area (SSA) of solid precipitation particles (PPs) includes detailed information of PP. This work is based on field measurement of SSA of PPs in Nagaoka, the city with the heaviest snowfall in Japan. The values of SSA strongly depend on wind speed (WS) and wet-bulb temperature (T_w) on the ground. An equation to empirically estimate the SSA of fresh PPs with WS and T_w was established and the equation successfully reproduced the fluctuation of SSA in Nagaoka.