Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge

Walter, Benjamin; Huwald, Hendrik; Gehring, Josué; Bühler, Yves; Lehning, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020

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Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge

Benjamin Walter, Hendrik Huwald, Josué Gehring, Yves Bühler, and Michael Lehning

Benjamin Walter

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

walter@slf.ch

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0282-8605

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland

Hendrik Huwald

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-7342

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland

School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Josué Gehring

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8485-7973

School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Yves Bühler

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0815-2717

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland

Michael Lehning

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-0875

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland

School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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We applied a horizontally mounted low-cost precipitation radar to measure velocities, frequency of occurrence, travel distances and turbulence characteristics of blowing snow off a mountain ridge. Our analysis provides a first insight into the potential of radar measurements for determining blowing snow characteristics, improves our understanding of mountain ridge blowing snow events and serves as a valuable data basis for validating coupled numerical weather and snowpack simulations.

We applied a horizontally mounted low-cost precipitation radar to measure velocities, frequency...